John Lennon Quotes
If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
Quotes to Explore
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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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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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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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
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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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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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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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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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We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
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I write in the studio.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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When it comes to acting, I've always had a passion for entertaining and for making people laugh. On the music side, I really want to come out as an artist because I want people to see who I really am... artistically, I tend to be drawn to the darker things. What the music will be able to do is show people that I am an adult now.
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I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
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At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.
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There were things I'd never do again, but then, they'd always seemed right.
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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
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If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
