Quotes about artist
artist trying stories
Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold. Daniel Johnston
artistic devices contraception
There is no known device for artistic contraception. Daniel J. Boorstin
artist doctors profound
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior. D. A. Carson
artist literature morality
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. D. H. Lawrence
artist might censorship
The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
artist literature never-trust
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
artist two way
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
artist world fit
Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
artist nashville used
It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists. Crystal Gayle
artist worst can-do
The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself. Conor Oberst
artist media perfect
I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left. Clint Black
artist beggar
Is an artist much more than a beggar? Clara Schumann
artist trying roles
Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work." Danny Glover
artist two labels
Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists. Daniel Ek
artist diversity people
It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.
artist creating people
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
artist decision want
I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my own way David Archuleta
artist hip-hop battle
The competitive nature of hip-hop culture has always had battling involved with it. So you battle with the other artist but not necessarily in business and everywhere else. Curtis Jackson
artist hip-hop beef
When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.
artist trying world
I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.
artist juxtaposition connections
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions. Corita Kent
artist differences tickets
The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket. Corey Taylor
artist luck cost
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much. Dana Spiotta
artist people world
There's lots of things that can't make it in the world that are worth making. There are lots of great artists who never make it, there are lots of great writers who don't get published - is it still worthwhile? Aren't we glad people are still doing it?
artist self careers
There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed the limits to places where people might be put off. But that's truly part of developing as an artist. Dane Cook
artist exotic done
Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that foreign artists are doing something that's at least as relevant as what's being done here. David Byrne
artist community suspicious
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
artist good-artist
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. Dave Eggers
artist people trying
Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren't trying to change the world. That's what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth. David Geffen
artist rocks
I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing. David Bowie
artist mtv black
There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.
artist radical-change made
Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
artist careers people
My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic. Dave Grohl