Artist Quotes
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I’m a martial artist. I don’t train for a fight. I train for myself. I’m training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.
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I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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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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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
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I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me green! I had to learn how to do my own makeup.
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My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music. He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop! Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you, Michael.
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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'm an artist at heart.
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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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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
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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 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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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 I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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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 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.
