Famous Quotes & Sayings

Her wit, comic timing, and her relationship with the artists bring a dynamic to the awards that I think is unprecedented in our industry.

Her vote of confidence in our past achievements and our future artistic goals is simply the best holiday gift any of us could ask for.

Greg Thomas

Her lyrical artistry is nothing short of revolutionary. It's the art with the most profound sexual politics I've ever seen anywhere.

Mary Lambert

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

Oscar Wilde

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

E. O. Wilson

He's got strong programs. He's got a lot of the basics and he could come through. The material and artistry are there. He's a player (for an Olympic medal), for sure.

Steve Vai

History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals. We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our artists possess.

Jake Edwards

He's a very love-drunk person. He tries to be artistic poetically.

Antoni Gaudi

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.

The best musicians or sound-artists are people who never considered themselves to be artists or musicians.

Kelly Price

I was known for being talented, but I was still the fat girl. And it wasn't what people were looking for. There's a lot that you hear. There's a lot of cruelty out there. Some of it comes from the executive offices. It comes from other artists at times. It was a very difficult thing to overcome.

Kelsea Ballerini

My theory is the root of a country artist is truth and honesty. For me, I look at Sam Hunt. The truth and the honest thing is we have southern roots, we were raised in a southern way, but we listen to Drake and other stuff, too.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

He was our man. He was the first artist we signed, and the biggest. We were lucky to have a relationship.

He was extremely talented, but in a different way. His images are very vivid. He used empty space in an extremely artistic way. He was not so much looking at the history of art. He looked at the images of movies and advertising. He was not looking backwards, but he was always looking at the present in a way nobody had done before.

Michael Dyson

He was not hip-hop's most gifted emcee. Still, Shakur may be the most influential and compelling rapper of them all, he was more than the sum of his artistic parts.

If the studios close then these great artists and others will have no reason to come to the city to record.

Michael Bolton

He was a storyteller. There was a lot of background that makes Frank Sinatra such a powerful icon. We all know the strong character that Frank Sinatra was, but the more music of his that you listen to, the more you sense the vulnerable artist that he was.

I always take a shower, then sit down and relax while I listen to music on my CD player. My favorite artists are Lil' Wayne and Bun B.

He was very creative and he always loved music. We have video tapes of him performing artists such as Michael Jackson. He would sing his heart out and be dancing up a storm.

He was the first to put these four pieces together and I think we can expect other artists put together even more pieces.

O. Henry

He had the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on airships when stimulated.

He is able to expose artists to a diverse crowd, and he gives many musicians of different styles and levels a chance.

He goes back and plays the same markets repeatedly and just develops a good, loyal following. It's an organic development, not based on MTV or radio hype, and that's the best kind of artist development.

There is a strong core of artists who have been working to preserve Frankford for a long time. It's been very inspiring and motivating for me to start to build relationships with them.

There is no connection between the artists who performed at the event and ordinary, run-of-the-mill graffiti arrests.

Joe Nichols

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Miley Cyrus

Sometimes pop artists, it's all about clothes and pyro. My thing is about my band.

Randeep Hooda

There is a sense of purity in theatre which always attracts me. Deep down, I feel I am more of an artist than a commodity, which Bollywood turns you into. I want to strike a balance.

There are some things that are more difficult and commercially successful. Writing original songs is more gratifying on some level. But this is so much damn fun because we invented it and perfected it. The fact that we let the music speak and then poof! -- it's gone -- manages to somehow give us artistic integrity in a cover-band framework. We've got something magical here, and we have to protect it. We don't want to suck any of the joy out of it.

There are some really renowned artists that come to this festival and don't do any other street shows other than ours. They like the quality of the people that come.

Golshifteh Farahani

I was born into an artistic family, and they understood me. But they were really worried, because some of the stuff I did was dangerous. If I'd been caught without the veil with a shaved head, I don't know what would have happened.