Artist Quotes
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
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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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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 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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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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An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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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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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.
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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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I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
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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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This blend of musicians on '90 Millas' is historically significant on a number of levels. This is the first and quite possibly the last time that all of these legendary artists will play together on one CD.
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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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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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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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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
