Artist Quotes
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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 a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
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You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.
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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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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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Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere.
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If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
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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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The Magician makes the visible, invisible. The Scientist makes the invisible, visible. The Artist stands in between, indivisible.
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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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I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.
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What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.
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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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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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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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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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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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People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.
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In Europe, where we have all these different forms of financing and cultural funds and systems like that, it's a good mixture of supporting artists to make movies. But, on the other side, everyone still wants to make money making movies. Again, even in the European film business, it's expensive to make movies.
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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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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.
