Debbie Harry Quotes
To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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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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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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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.
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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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Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'
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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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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.
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We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.
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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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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
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It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this
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I feel like a lot of niggas in the rap game ain't do what I did in these streets and a lot of niggas in the streets ain't do what I did in the rap game. I still feel like a lot of people don't feel where we come from.
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I don't have lots of things in the background. I do like large faces. I find them strong and contemporary.
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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
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I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.
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To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
