Artist Quotes
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.
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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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My music is all over the world and I am now feeling like a bona fide solo artist.
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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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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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I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
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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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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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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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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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There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.
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There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.
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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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I struggle every day with trying to be a better dad, a better husband, better musician, better artist. It consumes me, and I don't see an end in sight.
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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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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
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As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.
