Artist Quotes
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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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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Being a musician and artist can feel superficial at times - you talk about yourself every day and pose for photos for the magazines and newspapers, and it can be very tiring for your well-being.
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The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
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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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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.
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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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Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.
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It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this
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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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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 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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The Magician makes the visible, invisible. The Scientist makes the invisible, visible. The Artist stands in between, indivisible.
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
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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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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
