Artists Quotes
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The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
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The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.
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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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Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
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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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I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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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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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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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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Artists don’t live in the everyday world. That’s why people think they’re an odd bunch.
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The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
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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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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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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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Like books, artists have their fates.
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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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All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
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I think for the open-minded, I'm a lot like Luciano Pavarotti... But I don't know the technique. I'm learning. I think Pavarotti was a citizen of the world. He was very eclectic. He sang with Sting and with a lot of other pop artists, and this open-mindedness, for me, is very important.
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Usually I get inspired by singles and not artists, but I love Macklemore.
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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.
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Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
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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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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.
