Artist Quotes

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.

I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician.

It's time for artists to take their music back.

My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.

I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

I think your life informs your art.

Now that I'm in my 40s, it's much easier to be an artist. It's good knowing that I'm not in the game to be competing with really young groups of kids on the radio. Or to, you know, make 'beat' music.

I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

There are some people who don't believe in entertainment if you're a Christian artist. But I think it's a good thing for it to be entertainment at the same time.

As an artist, to release music is what you look forward to. That's what everybody looks forward to when they sign a deal. It feels really good to know I'm actually working towards a release date.

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.

It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

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The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female.

Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

In America, there are some artists who are more of an image than music; if your star status goes down there, you're finished.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

I'm hoping to become a recording artist and make albums and go on tour.

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

The artist’s aim is not to instruct the viewer, but to give information, whether the viewer understands the information is incidental to the artist.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

Who knows what the future holds but I think I'll always be that dude that can run hooks, and do hooks for other artists, and really know how to make a catchy hook.

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

Swag defines an artist, period. Lil Wayne has his super-tattooed pierces and dreads swag. Jay-Z has his New York, grown man, Beyonce and 40/40 Club swag.

Heidi [Montag]'s a far more talented artist. Personally, I think Lady Gaga is repulsive and classless.

I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.

When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.