"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

Artist, Artists, Entertainment, First, Thinking

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"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."

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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Artist, Public

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Artist, Feeling

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist

Artist, Artists, Confusion, Intellectuals

"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

John Zorn, American Composer

Artist, Artists

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

James Thurber, American Comedian

Artist, Artists, Man

"I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house."

Jackie DeShannon, American Musician

Artist, Artists, First, Musicians

"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."

Tina Weymouth, American Musician

Artist, Play

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

Madeleine Peyroux, American Musician

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"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me."

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"I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do."

Drugs

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."

Bravery

"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."

Clothes

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

Experience

"But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there."

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"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."

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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house."

"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

Explore more quotes by Richard Thompson

"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me."

"I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do."

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity."

"When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it."

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

"But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there."

"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."

"It's amazing what some people read into songs."

"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."

"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."