Famous Quotes & Sayings

There are a lot of local artists and we have a lot of activities. I think we bring a lot of tourists because of the importance of the arts here and people are thinking about Beaufort County. Not only about our beautiful scenery but also about the arts.

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The measure is the work and how you think your work is perceived. How the museums are. How you are doing.

Eleanor Catton

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

John Schlesinger

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film.

This should put some steel in their spine. Canadians overwhelmingly understand that musicians and other artists are harmed by illegal file-swapping and deserve better protection under the law.

Bob Richards

The person who's writing and performing those songs wants to get to know the fans even more. Find out how close that song is to their real life, what it means to them. The earlier in the process that we can start connecting those artists with fans, the better.

Robert Graham

We see three types of hackers out there, ... There are voyeurs, like peeping toms; graffiti artists that trash the Web site and tell their friends; and criminals who steal things, such as customer lists.

We're talking Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Willie Nelson all of those big acts, big artists from that era.

Adam Jones

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

John Shelby Spong

I think the best way to view the Gospels is to view them as a magnificent portrait being painted by Jewish artists to try to capture the essence of a God experience that they believe they had with Jesus of Nazareth.

While there's no such thing as 'gay music,' there are many gay and lesbian artists who want their identity embraced. To not only embrace them as artists but as individuals. It really is just a home for the artists.

Hope Partlow

while there is definitely some country influences in my music since I used to listen to artists like Reba McEntire and Patsy Cline but I kind of went with the times and what was popular on the radio and it led me to the newer stuff but I don't think there's any chance that I'll ever get all of the country out of what I do.

Andrew Eldritch

Unfortunately, in the current litigious climate I'm one of the very many artists who receive tapes and chucks them straight in the bin.

Finding artists for our stamp collection is a matter of rigorous selection, ... (Sims') artwork was chosen out of hundreds of artworks submitted to us. I believe she is also the only artist in the collection from Alabama.

Fans of these artists will die to have content like this that's unique.

Percy Sledge

I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter!

There are a handful of American-born, Hispanic artists out there performing this (country) music, but like everything else in this business, the big stars are few and far between.

With our new service, we will be able to satisfy music lovers' urges for all things music. In many ways, URGE will serve as a 'psychic concierge', introducing fans to new artists and helping them to develop a deeper connection to old favorites.

Kris Allen

Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.

Rupert Friend

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

Rain

I want to challenge myself to see where my limit is and experiment with a lot of different films. A lot of artists from Asia focus too much on their Asian background. I don't want to let go of my background, but to be a success in the U.S., which is my goal, I realize I need to surround myself with American filmmakers and producers.

Writers and spoke-word artists will write something in response to a work in the exhibition and share what they wrote. It's open to writers, poets and storytellers.

We all help each other out. We help critique work. It gives you ideas to think about. You're always striving to get better. This is always staffed by other artists who can talk about your art and you.

The public has shown they will pay a big premium for artists they really want to see.

The opportunity to see life they way one of one of our greatest Southern artists actually lived it is just extraordinary.

We will put that project out to bid for artists interested in doing that project.

This year we welcomed artists from Hollywood to Hong Kong and everywhere in between.

This year, we decided to look back and to honor and showcase some of the artists who came up during that time and team them with the rising stars that people always love to see at the festival.

This year the Q awards highlighted two things; that 2005 has been a vintage year for music in the UK and that the power of the music and artists that Q has always championed remains undimmed.

Brian Grazer

I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if you're branded. I get the trade-off, and I really would like to be more famous for my work, get more credit for my achievements.

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.

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.

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.