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 am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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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 was at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.
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It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
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My personal time is limited, more so than I wish. However, my wife and I have talked about the fact that there are opportunities right now that won't be there forever. For example, when the Grateful Dead offered me to tour in 2004, my first reaction was to say no, I just can't do it. Then my wife said, "Well, let's rethink this. You don't want to look back down the road and say, I could've done that, but I said no." So, we made it work.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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.
