Artist Quotes
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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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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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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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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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Every artist was first an amateur.
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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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One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.
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Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
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If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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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.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.
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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 who works with Lego.
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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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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
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One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
