Artist Quotes
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Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
Donald Miller
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Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t
Erykah Badu
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The biggest obstacle was getting people to take me seriously as an artist. I would write songs and I’d send them to A&R’s as pitches for other artists—this actually happened three different times.
Justin Jesso
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Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know
Gregory Isaacs
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood
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I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.
Chris Campanioni
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As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.
Jason Aldean
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I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.
Anzia Yezierska
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I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
Laurie Anderson
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I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also.
Kanye West
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It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.
E. J. Hughes
