Gary Reilly Quotes

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• All artists are crazy.

  

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• The more far-out artists, the better.

  

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• Poitier opened the doors to so many artists, not just black artists. There is a line that goes from black to Latin to Asian with regards to roles.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects.

  

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• I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

  

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

  

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• The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne. Those are the people that we wanted to model ourselves after. Throwing on the Cartier frames, the army-style fatigue jackets.

  

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• '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!'

  

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• 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.

  

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• The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

  

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• I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

  

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

  

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

  

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• I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!

  

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• You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.

  

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• This job has probably got the most screwing-up potential in the world.

  

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• I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

  

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• A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

  

  Gary Reilly
  • Artists
  • Failed
  • Novelists