"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."

Artist, Bargain, Being, First

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"Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good."

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"It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation."

Keith Urban, American Musician

Artist, Artists, Day

"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."

Smokey Robinson, American Musician

Artist,

"Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together."

Glenn Frey, American Musician

Artist, Artists, Now

"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."

Jane Badler, American Actress

Artist, Artists

"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."

Isaac Hanson, American Musician

Artist, Generations, Want

"You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist."

Pharrell Williams, American Musician

Artist,

"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

"Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention."

Alan Parsons, British Musician

Artist, Folk, Style

"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."

Skitch Henderson, American Musician

Artist, Artists

"I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!"

Colin Mochrie, Scottish Actor

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"Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success."

Success

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."

Heart

"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."

Mother

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."

Talent

"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."

Life

"Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out."

Time

"Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone."

Faith

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"It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation."

"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."

"Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together."

"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."

"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."

"You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist."

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

"Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention."

"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."

"I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!"

Explore more quotes by Paul Simon

"Without Arthur's voice, I never would have enjoyed that success."

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."

"I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one."

"I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing."

"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives."

"Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out."

"Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone."

"I always get very calm with baseball."

"Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough."

"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."