Artist Quotes
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.
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I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
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An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
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I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.
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Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.
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I'm not a rapper; I'm an artist. And I'm more than an artist. I'm a brand.
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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
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Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
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Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
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If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.
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I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
