Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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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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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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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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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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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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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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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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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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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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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.
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The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness... even if it's just for an instant.
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There are many confidence-testing opportunities in the next number of weeks,
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Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
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The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
