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Artist Quotes
"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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"Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist."
9
"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
9
"It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this."
9
"I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist."
9
"I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons."
8
"One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations."
8
"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."
8
"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?"
8
"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."
8
"Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons."
8
"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."
8
"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."
8
"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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"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."
7
"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."
7
"I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted."
7
"Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves."
7
"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."
6
"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."
6
"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
6
"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."
6
"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
6
"Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists."
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