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Artist Quotes
"Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist."
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"My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career."
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"I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?"
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"You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself."
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"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."
"There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist."
"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity."
"I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?"
"As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist."
"As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there."
"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."
"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down."
"But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected."
"Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist."
"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."
"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
"A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself."
"No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel."
"When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going."
"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
"Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best."
"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."
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