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Artist Quotes
"So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits."
"I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all."
"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."
"Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique."
"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."
"We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum."
"It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you."
"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."
"I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist."
"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."
"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."
"It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together."
"I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it."
"Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist."
"A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself."
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
"Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes."
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did."
"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician."
"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."
"I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this."
"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
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