Artist Quotes
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As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
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To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.
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As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your ass.
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An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way - with guitars, ukelele, a computer. So, that will never die. It's always the artist behind the computer, not the computer.
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Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
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The one thing I'm really the most confident in as an artist is my songwriting ability and ear for pop music. I'm really excited to show that off. It was a side that I wasn't able to show on 'American Idol.'
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I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.
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Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.
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A lot of artists still will not get that far. And get that far and be as successful. So, it's a great thing for me, and hopefully I can make it to number 10. And then I would want to start managing other artists, 'cause I think the best manager is an artist, his, or herself, that has been in the business and been successful and knows the ins and outs of the business.
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I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
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I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
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I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist.
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Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
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In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.
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As a photographer, knowing what an artist is going to do at a certain point in a song, you can prepare for it and get that crazy Kanye “lean forward arm back and to the sky” signature move.
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What's interesting for me as an artist is when I'm able to take a cover and put my own twist on it. Sing it in my voice. Playing a cover doesn’t necessarily mean doing the song exactly the way it was originally recorded. If I do a cover, I always want to make it my own somehow.
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I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.
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I was a very introverted individual and this became an important outlet for me to express myself, to communicate, to take positions, make statements, take a stand and so forth. But I never really thought I had much a future at all So the thing that I had to do was to really go inward and really work super hard in the hope that someday it would pay off. And in using that term I don't mean necessarily money, but just the fact that I would have more depth and dimension both as a human being and as an artist.
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It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.
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People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing.
