Artist Quotes
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Most people's lives are governed by willpower. An artist is someone who has no will.
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I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.
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I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.
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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
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There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.
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I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.
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I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.
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I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.
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I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.
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Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.
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Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.
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My music is all over the world and I am now feeling like a bona fide solo artist.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
