Artist Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of Latin music and it's an honor to have them on this album ["90 Millas," released in September of 2007]. I believe this album will expose a new generation to the richness of Cuban music.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
