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Artist Quotes
"I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me."
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"In general, I don't feel artists should need producers."
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"As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail."
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"As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there."
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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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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
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"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity."
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"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?"
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"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."
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"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit."
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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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"We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum."
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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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"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."
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"Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did."
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"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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"There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova."
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"I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist."
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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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