Music Artist Quotes

Music Artist Quote of the day

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should, the way I do.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.

Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

I grew up with all kinds of music, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.

I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

This isn't about fans, greed or money. It's about being morally right or wrong. Nobody is governing the way music gets from artists to fans. It's all running amok.

There's a lot of other artists doing things outside of that depth that I enjoy - that music that I can actually have fun to, and not be in depth and think about, then I appreciate that.

I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

When we look at a painting, listen to a piece of music, read a novel, or watch a movie we are taking in the artist's composition. The composition is the totality of the work.

I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.

What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.

Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.