Artist Quotes
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
Lady Gaga
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Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
Otis Blackwell
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
L.A. Reid
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
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Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.
Trevor Charles Horn
Art of Noise
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
Vanessa Hudgens
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
Nate Powell
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I am a brush, the car is my track and the artist my canvas.
Damon Hill
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As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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We all exist in similar systems that mirror and reproduce the same American culture for the most part. What Oscar Wilde said about the lucky author who has a non-literary day job no longer holds, if it ever did. Artists seek validation as much as they seek money. The creation and invention of culture and canon is where most of the trouble lies.
Fady Joudah
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
Jack Kroll
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Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
Madi Diaz
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The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.
Shinichi Suzuki
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I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.
Sandra Bullock
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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
Ed Sheeran
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It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us
Edith Schaeffer
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
Kate Bush
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'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.
Taylor Hicks
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I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
John Travolta
