Music Artist Quotes
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.
You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.
I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.
When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.
Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
I think that there was a fad where everyone said, "I want you to create a signature step for my artist." The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?
I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.
I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else.
If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers.
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
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.
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.
There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.
I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to show the world that.
Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.
When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
My life goal right now is to die a good man, with a good heart, soul, and mind, with a good family, and a couple Grammys.
We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They'll have to offer a well-presented theatre show.
