Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are pleased to have secured such an important element in creating our new service, one that will benefit songwriters, artists and consumers alike.

Billy Joel

There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.

Hedda Sterne

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,

Jose Gonzalez

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Nathan Sawaya

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Nicholas Haslam

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

We believe that Bill Maher's interviews with some of the world's most renowned and up-and-coming artists and entertainers will offer customers unique insight into the motivations and inspirations behind the books, films, and music they love.

We felt it was important for people to have that part of their life available in the Helena community. Now there are many artists here in the Helena community. There are artists who have moved here for that very reason.

Throughout the ages, artists have always spoken up about what is going on in society, and that's what's happening now.

David Ellefson

Waking Up Dead does a great job of portraying the irony of stardom's illusive promise of money, fame and power only to have it boomerang back and cut so many artists to shreds.

When the station was initially conceived, it was meant to do everything if they'd let the artists go crazy, they would have had the Starship Enterprise docking with it,

There are trained audiences here that respect dance as a form. Europe invests in its artists over the long haul.

Larry Gagosian

Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

Robert Wilson

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

Tess Henley

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

Laurieann Gibson

I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can too!' I want to direct, do more with 'The Dance Scene,' sign artists and just provide opportunities. I'm just getting started and having the time of my life!

Kate Bush

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

Eric Fischl

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

Eric Fischl

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

Elizabeth Peyton

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to hear what they have to say.

Joe Simon

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

Brad Paisley

Some artists would rather go in there and let some other things dictate the kind of record they do, but I've got such a great team.

Angela Jones

Showing the films is really just a different niche for the Artists Series to fill. There's a demand for this type of thing. We're hoping to take the film festival to a different level, go on to bigger and better things.

simply because if you look at the music business, there aren't a lot of new artists that can fill up an arena. Realistically, some of the best music today is (by) people like Norah Jones or Alicia Keys (who) are more suited (to) the intimacy of a theater.

Mississippi has long been home to writers, painters, sculptors, blues artists, quilters and others who have helped define the very essence of this land, ... Restoring our artists and arts organizations is vital to the rebuilding of this state.

We have invited four artists to participate, ... We have given them a site walk-through and a general overview of the project, of what we are building, so they have a visual understanding of the setting and the backdrop.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

Tom Odell

What's nice about Twitter is that you've got that point of contact with your fans that artists have never had before. I think it's good for musicians. Just as long as you don't start tweeting things about your girlfriends or boyfriends - there's got to be a line.

Natalie Cole

Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

Dolly Parton

Many of the artists and musicians were already committed to family gatherings or other concert appearances, ... All of us involved want to put on the best show possible, so we decided to reschedule.

Norman Jewison

Many of our graduates have gained national and international recognition for their creative excellence. We welcome the support of the Ontario government in giving our local artists a chance to make a huge difference both here and abroad.

Many so-called artists are really products of nature's art.