Artist Quotes
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I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run with it and create in an unrestrained manner. Once the artist gets back to me with a few ideas, I like to do the little changes to make it perfectly speak to the audience.
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Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
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Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t
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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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A lot of artists are such narcissists.
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I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
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It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We both dance and sing but people have not yet had enough time to realise that there is a huge difference between us. If she wants to go and do something, I'll want to do the opposite.
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You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.
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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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If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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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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There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.
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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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When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.
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I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
