Artist Quotes
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As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
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My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
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I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.
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I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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Her album is very much what she wanted to say, and it's funny going through the process with her and knowing what these songs are about and watching her mature into what she is now an artist as opposed to an 'American Idol' winner, ... That was probably the most fun I've had on a session. She was so much fun and very laid-back, but very sincere.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
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The artist should have as little desire to rule as to serve. He can only create, do nothing but create, and so help the state only by … exalting politicians and economists into artists.
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As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
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Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.
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The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
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I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
