Artists Quotes
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I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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What makes the music business wrong is when executives start to believe that they’re more important than the artists,I’ve never gotten to that place.
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The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
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I have seen some pretty big mismatches with artists and brands. It is no longer days of just sponsorship, rather it’s more about working with people who are likeminded.
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Artists don’t live in the everyday world. That’s why people think they’re an odd bunch.
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Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.
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When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.
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Other artists' music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.
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One thing we have built over the years is credibility and we have big, small and medium artists, Australian artists or international artists.
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The Internet is a big reason I've been successful so far. It's working for a lot of new wave artists, which I consider myself a part of.
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I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.
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Usually I get inspired by singles and not artists, but I love Macklemore.
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Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
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The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.
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I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that.
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All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
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A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.
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Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.
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Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.
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The artists of Asia have spiritually realized form, rather than aesthetically invented or imitated form, and from them I have learned that art and nature are mind's Environment within which we can detect the essence of man's Being and Purpose, and from which we can draw clues to guide our journey from partial consciousness to full consciousness.
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Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.
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Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.
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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.
