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Artist Quotes
"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"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?"
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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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"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."
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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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"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."
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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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"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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"There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible."
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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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"I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit."
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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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"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."
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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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"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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"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
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"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
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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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"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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"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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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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"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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"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
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"My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire."
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"I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad."
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