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Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though.
I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.
I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member
The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.
I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong, so it's very hard.
Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. 'Rent' was that place for me.
As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.
I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.
I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Sometimes I say stuff to relate to people. It just really depends, because you don't have to be one type of artist and talk about one thing.
There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.
The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.
Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music.
You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
I want to hear the artist. I want to hear them give me something that I can relate to, other than the fact that everything's about bragging.
I think it's important as a player every now and again to play something that's influenced you as an artist just to expose the people to it.
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.
For me there are no rules. I think I learned that from artists-from painters and sculptors. It took photography a while to catch up to them.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.
I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.
The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.
On the 'Blacks & Browns' record, it's me and Sad Boy. He's a Hispanic artist, and we're talking about what we got going on with our peoples.
Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
I'm a martial artist, and I don't train because I have a fight; I train because it's my lifestyle, and I'll train every day if I'm not hurt.
I’m a martial artist, and I don’t train because I have a fight; I train because it’s my lifestyle, and I’ll train every day if I’m not hurt.
I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved.
As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.
It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists cant. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness and your black presence.
Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward.
I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.