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Artist Quotes
"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."
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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
4
"Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it."
4
"I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company."
4
"In general, I don't feel artists should need producers."
4
"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen."
4
"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."
4
"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this."
4
"My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter."
4
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
4
"The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist."
4
"I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist."
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"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground."
3
"We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum."
3
"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."
3
"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."
3
"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did."
3
"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."
3
"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."
3
"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?"
3
"You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist."
3
"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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