Artist Quotes
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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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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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.
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I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
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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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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
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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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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.
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I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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Artists everywhere steal mercilessly all the time and I think this is healthy.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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When an artist gets the chance to have the media sunshine on them, they’ve got to take advantage of it.
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... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and use reality in all its individuality and peculiarity.
