Artist Quotes
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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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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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 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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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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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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One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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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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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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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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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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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
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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.
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A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.
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I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.
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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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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
