Artist Quotes

• I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Legacy

• A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Voice
  • Instrument
  • Defective

• While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Personality
  • Manner
  • Essentially

• Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

  

  Annie Ilonzeh
  • Artist
  • Inspiration
  • Tupac

• I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point to collaborate.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Artist
  • Collaborations
  • Caliber

• Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Artist
  • Anywhere

• The first artist whose music I really got into was Paolo Nutini. When his album 'Sunny Side Up' came out, I think I listened to it on repeat for, like, six months.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Music
  • Album
  • Repeat

• I wouldn’t want to be labelled unless it was something much broader and inclusive such as an ecological artist or a visionary artist, but there’s a constraint in the definition of a feminist artist, you’re an artist and you’re a feminist.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • Feminist
  • Definition
  • Visionary

• The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Responsibility
  • Artist

• The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Real
  • Style
  • Rock

• The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Passion
  • Painting

• A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

  

  Edwin Farnham Butler III Arcade Fire
  • Writing
  • Careers
  • Whole

• I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Real
  • Musicians

• Knowing that I inspired SAM SMITH is one of the most powerful experiences I've had as an artist. I was Sam. I still am Sam.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Powerful
  • Inspired
  • Knowing

• Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.

  

  Cornelia Parker
  • World
  • Response
  • Studio

• I know it is crazy, every time I release something now people say I am becoming more rough and tough. I guess my direction has been changing, I think this new album is a better reflection of who I am as an artist and as a person, I have changed a lot since the Boyzone days.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • World
  • Great
  • Important

• I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Always
  • Artist
  • Idea

• I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Music
  • Single
  • Hear

• I didn't really know Kurt that well, but there was a guy I always admired. We didn't spend much time together, but the few times we did spend together, you know, were times I'll always remember. You know, he was a really sweet guy, and a really genuine soul, you know, and an incredibly talented artist.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Soul

• I think every musician is different, every artist is different, and in a perfect world people would be able to pursue their own path and have the inspiration and the drive to, and the energy and dedication to take their path to its fruition. I don't really believe in formulas.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • Energy
  • Inspiration
  • Musician

• I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Artist
  • inspirational

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