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Artists should be able to thrive and allow their ideas to flourish as much as those in biotechnology or finance.
We've been having a great time writing for other artists in and amongst making our Bastille albums and mixtapes.
My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.
The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.
I'm glad Wu-Tang was able to inspire other producers and artists, but I would never want to be erased or removed.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
The goal as an actor is to constantly surround yourself with amazing artists who challenge you and make you grow.
My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.
I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're all pretty much insane.
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
I earned the opportunity to stand on stage with many senior artists at YG, and naturally, I gained stage experience.
All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.
My advice to new artists is to forget about all of this and take acting and dancing lessons and become a video star.
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
Country artists have advantages all over the place. The radio support is incredible. The fanbase is rabid, all over.
My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele.
For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
When I think of artists I love, like J. Cole, it's the storytelling that grabs me. I want to be honest with my music.
I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.
When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.
You can see how different artists work, from writing to recording, just from being in the studio environment with them.
If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
Artists can most definitely control the culture of fashion. Kids and different fans look up to us for dressing pointers.
It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.
No shade to the other artists in Chicago... but if you got confidence in yourself and you know you're Number One, say it.
Swavey is a musical genre that I came up with to describe artists who are too talented to stay in a box with their music.
I think that Napster is the greatest invention since sliced bread. Napster, to me, is liberation and freedom for artists.
The work ethic behind everything Kanye does is crazy. It's greatness. He told me, 'We're not just rappers, we're artists.'
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.
I like dirty boys. Mechanics, construction workers, artists who get paint and clay everywhere. They gotta have rough hands.
We believe that we'll get what we want if we continue to be BTS and know what to do as artists and performers with passion.
Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.
I always wanted to do my solo album in English, because I grew up listening to a lot of pop artists and English-based songs.
I think there's so many amazing LGBTQ artists, ranging from commercial to underground, that are influencing people at large.
It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.