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Artist Quotes
"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this."
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"The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist."
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"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity."
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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."
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"But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected."
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"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."
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"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."
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"So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits."
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"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."
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"It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you."
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"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."
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"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."
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"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
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"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t."
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"Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it."
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"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
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"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."
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"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."
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"I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly."
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"Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression."
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"I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to."
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"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
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"I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist."
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