Artist Quotes
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The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.
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I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.
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What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what lens that will be through. A lot of my work has been about identity in different ways. Part of that for me falls into the question of gender identity certainly but also about what it means to be an American theater artist.
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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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I'm constantly learning as a songwriter, so naturally that makes you grow as an artist. But I also think the more time I spend in music the more time I feel I understand it; or at least I understand where I stand amongst the industry and my identity within it all.
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Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
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There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now,
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When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
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As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.
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To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--
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A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.
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I do have a large audience overseas, and I want to continue to be an international artist.
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Social media has created an awesome platform not only for the fans to be able to communicate directly with the artist, but for new artists to have a platform to share music. As far as me, I love it because it allows the fans to connect with me.
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For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
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College had a great deal to do with my development as a person. I don't know if I'd be the artist I was if it wasn't for goin' to school like that. School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.
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I'm a SoundCloud, online kind of artist. It's not like back in the day when everyone was like linking up physically to do music. But with the album, I did have my first experience with meeting with a producer and us making things from scratch.
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Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.
