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Artist Quotes
"You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there."
"However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a " buzz " about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US."
"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
"To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists."
"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."
"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."
"The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist."
"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."
"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
"All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists."
"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
"Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world."
"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."
"You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist."
"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
"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."
"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t."
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
"There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova."
"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."
"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."
"I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me."
"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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