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What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they want to express. It's never about you stepping out and showing you can play something fancy. Benmont Tench
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection. Imre Kertesz
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere. Damian Marley
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When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.
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When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for. Sarah Rees Brennan
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When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such talk is that the arts need to be regulated, which is to say censored. Steve Erickson
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When my partner and I originally started, we were looking to generate income that would provide for our families and still (give us) the artistic outlet. We found that dinner theater was that vehicle,
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We work with the school police a lot when it comes to graffiti, because most of the graffiti artists are juveniles. They keep an eye in the schools, look at the writing on the notebooks ... and they get a feel for who might be doing these.
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Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there. Kurt Vonnegut
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I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did. Kurt Vonnegut
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The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions. Robert Wilson
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things -- creating molding the earth -- whether it be the plains of the west -- or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction -- some with a brush -- some with a shovel -- some choose a pen. Jackson Pollock
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There is no question that music continues to play a pivotal role in video games and video games continue to play a pivotal role in promoting new artists to a wide audience. Through this contest, we are giving musicians an unprecedented opportunity to be seen and heard by potentially millions of fans worldwide as well as the opportunity to be associated with this year's most anticipated video game and one of Hollywood's most iconic characters.
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I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim. Trey Songz
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In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters. Tyler Cowen
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When I see Kate Moss out and about, I think she looks more beautiful than when her hairdresser and make-up artist try and make her look like something else. And I remember when Madonna first asked Versace to book me to shoot a campaign with her, she came to see me wearing hardly any make-up, and she looked incredible. Mario Testino
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Fine artists reflect, and then they act. Fashion photographers - we act, and then we reflect. Mario Testino
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I really love New York, and I've lived here for a long time. I know not just the different neighborhoods but the different kind of class cultures in New York from the up-and-coming, down-and-out kind of artist to the powerful worlds of finance. Neil Burger
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People are extremely excited about the lineup. In the first place, people are thrilled that the festival is even happening, but beyond that collective sign of relief ... folks are incredibly excited about the number of jazz legends and artists we're presenting in 2005.
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People are either artists who want to make music and make headlines or they are really celebrities who are flash in the pan and grab as much (as they can) when that flash is hot,
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Our challenge is to get someone who has never been to the festival to buy a ticket for a show that they haven't been to before, artists that they don't know. But that's our reputation now. People hadn't heard of Todd Snider before we brought him here and the people who keep coming expect that. They will find something new that they loved by the time the weekend is over.
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Our celebration of the Canadian music industry and its talent continues to attract world-renowned artists to our stage.
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Overall I am pleased. All things considered I think it went very well and from an artistic standpoint I'm very proud of what we've been able to do. The goal next year is to provide the same quality and save a little money.
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Out of the fullness of this presence of mind, disturbed by no ulterior motive, the artist who is released from all attachment must practice his art. Eugen Herrigel
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Artists need to express. Bebe Neuwirth
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There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite. Beck
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We never 'made' a star, ... but we gave a lot of artists an opportunity for exposure. A singer has to do a lot of work in smoke-filled bars to be a good singer.
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Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do. Billy Corgan
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A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times. Billy Corgan
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I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor. Billy Corgan
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So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing. Bill Sienkiewicz
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I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced. Bill Sienkiewicz
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Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra. Bill Sienkiewicz