Eric Friedman Quotes

There were at least 500-600 proposals after our initial call to artists in early January. We approved a little less than half of them, but not all were made.

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• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Work
  • Place
  • Dead

• It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

  

  Maluma
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Artists

• The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Inspiration
  • Artists
  • Female

• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Friends
  • Artists

• All artists are crazy.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Crazy
  • Artists

• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Men
  • Women
  • Artists

• Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Confidence
  • Artists
  • Vote

• Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
  • Artists
  • Very
  • Musically

• I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!

  

  Raini Rodriguez
  • Music
  • School
  • Style

• 'Are you sure,' she asked, 'that it is God whom you serve?' The Cardinal looked up, met her eyes and smiled very gently. 'That,' he said, 'that, Madame, is a risk which the artists and the priests of this world have to run!'

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • God
  • Risk

• I get inspiration from all kinds of things: I can get it from hanging out with my son, from hanging out with my wife, from checking out different artists, from hearing something at a party.

  

  Little Louie Vega
  • Party
  • Wife
  • Son

• I find it extraordinary that without even proper consideration, the French government has decided it will reject these proposals.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Consideration
  • Proposals
  • French government

• No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• God and other artists are always a little obscure....

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Always
  • Artists

• The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Man
  • Past

• It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Work
  • Important
  • Perfect

• Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Change
  • Journey
  • Artists

• I've been a huge fan of Adele, Sam Smith, and Ed Sheeran, and those amazing artists draw inspiration from their present and past experiences; they write songs from their heart.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Amazing
  • Artists
  • Been

• Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

  

  DJ Snake
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Honest

• For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Memories
  • Speed
  • Astonishing

• There were at least 500-600 proposals after our initial call to artists in early January. We approved a little less than half of them, but not all were made.

  

  Eric Friedman Tremonti
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