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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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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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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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
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The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials
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One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
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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.
