Artist Quotes
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I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.
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I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
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The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
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An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive.
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Get out of your mind that you can be a woman like me, all you’d succeed in being is what a woman is according to you men. You can copy me, make a portrait as precise as an artist, but my shit will always remain mine, and yours will be yours.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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I remember music first artists second.
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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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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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I meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
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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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The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?
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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
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My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.
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Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.
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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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When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.
