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Artist Quotes
"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."
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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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"There's artists that I'm working with on a new label of mine. Foxy Nova and Supa Nova."
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"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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"As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box."
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"An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else."
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"The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer."
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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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"The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level."
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"Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression."
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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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"I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce."
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"The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication."
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"Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves."
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity."
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"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists."
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"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."
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"But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist."
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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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"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."
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"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."
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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 think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way."
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"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."
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"Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive."
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