KT Tunstall (Kate Victoria Tunstall) Quotes
Regardless of any feedback. I love being a solo artist and having creative control. But it can be very nourishing and informative and flex very different creative muscles to work for someone else. You are essentially employed by the director. I love the challenge of that.
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
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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'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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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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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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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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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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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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It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.
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I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
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I don't want to say PSG is a step backwards, but It would be returning to something I already know. I'm always in for new challenges. When I will leave Chelsea one day, it would be to discover something new.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
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The importance of right view can be gauged from the fact that our perspectives on the crucial issues of reality and value have a bearing that goes beyond mere theoretical convictions. They govern our attitudes, our actions, our whole orientation to existence. Our views might not be clearly formulated in our mind; we might have only a hazy conceptual grasp of our beliefs. But whether formulated or not, expressed or maintained in silence, these views have a far-reaching influence. They structure our perceptions, order our values, crystallize into the ideational framework through which we interpret to ourselves the meaning of our being in the world.
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
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I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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Regardless of any feedback. I love being a solo artist and having creative control. But it can be very nourishing and informative and flex very different creative muscles to work for someone else. You are essentially employed by the director. I love the challenge of that.
