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".

Brooke Valentine

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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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Artist
  • Partner
  • Bridge

• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Artist
  • Worst
  • Unhappy

• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Government
  • Artist
  • Should

• An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Artist
  • Everything
  • Eclipse

• 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.

  

  Warren G
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Industry

• As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • People
  • Help
  • Fashion

• No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Rich

• As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Control
  • Artist
  • Independent

• I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Know
  • Artist
  • Say

• 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.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Movie
  • Kind
  • Artist

• But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Artist
  • Process
  • Respected

• 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.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Work
  • She
  • Artist

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Want
  • Artist

• I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Artist

• What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Great
  • Imagination
  • Artist

• I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Artist
  • Radio
  • Big

• All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Changing

• I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

  

  George Benson
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Looks

• What I'm worrying about is what Tom is going to say when he starts talking." "Uncle Tom?" "I wish there was something else you could call him except 'Uncle Tom,' " Aunt Dahlia said a little testily. "Every time you do it, I expect to see him turn black and start playing the banjo.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Black
  • Wish

• There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside, intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.

  

  William Eggleston
  • Mind
  • Doe
  • Projects

• Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Good
  • Work
  • Look

• 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".

  

  Brooke Valentine
  • Artist