Artist Quotes
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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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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 think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
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Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.
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You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
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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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The Magician makes the visible, invisible. The Scientist makes the invisible, visible. The Artist stands in between, indivisible.
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Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.
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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 do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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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.
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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 you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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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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They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
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The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
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Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.
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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.
