Talib Kweli Quotes
I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.
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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 miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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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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I was a really big kid.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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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.
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I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
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You should despair and run away.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
