Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nas

You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world.

Montgomery Clift

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Miranda Lambert

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

Miley Cyrus

Just because you're an artist doesn't give you an excuse to be an asshole.

Mignon McLaughlin

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

John Ruskin

English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

Meek Mill

Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the game for a long time, so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.

Meg Wolitzer

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie?

Maximilian Schell

I think all the poets and artists have always written for peace and love, and it hasn’t changed much in the last two or three thousand years. But we hope.

Maxfield Parrish

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

Max Weinberg

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

Max Weber

The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.

Maurice Denis

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

Marina and the Diamonds

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

Marina and the Diamonds

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

Marina and the Diamonds

I've really come into my own as an artist. I'm much more sure of my identity and understand it much better, and have accepted the fact that I like to jump around a lot in terms of who I am and what kind of music I create, and that it is okay - in fact, that is my main identity, the fact that I do that.

Marina Abramovic

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

Marina Abramovic

Artists can do whatever they want!

Marina Abramovic

If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.

Marina Abramovic

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

Marina Abramovic

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Marilynne Robinson

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

Matisyahu

Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

Mary Steenburgen

I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.

Pat Oliphant

I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.

Pablo Casals

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

Plato

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

Philip Wylie

So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.

Paul Weller

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.

Paul Weller

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

Paul Weller

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.

Martin Parr

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

Laurieann Gibson

For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.