Brooke Valentine (Kanesha Nichole Brookes) Quotes
I remember the excitement of being a new artist. When up and coming artists ask me like, "Any advice you have for me?" I always say, "Take it all in because you'll never be a new artist again".
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.
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Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible?
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The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march
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I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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I remember the excitement of being a new artist. When up and coming artists ask me like, "Any advice you have for me?" I always say, "Take it all in because you'll never be a new artist again".
