Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Everly

In the beginning of rock n' roll, there was always innovation. Artists were always trying to do something new and something different.

Randy Houser

It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.

If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.

Robertson Davies

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Rick Wakeman

I had joined Yes in 1971. I was a classically trained musician who had worked with numerous artists as a session musician. I played on David Bowie's 'Life On Mars,' Cat Stevens's 'Morning Has Broken' and even on some Des O'Connor records, though I kept that quiet.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

There are a lot of artists that come and go very quickly, and I understand why just because someone has a No. 1 doesn't necessarily mean they should be up for best male or female categories. I understand that Aria are protecting the integrity of what Aria is, but I do think that pop music isn't recognised enough.

We have the ballots, and then we'll also have local artists who look at them.

Eddy Cue

We have all labels except for Sony and we are working with them and we know their artists would like to be a part of this launch - and we hope they will join us soon.

We have more than 50 artists represented who will be displaying and selling their work,

Charlie Wilson

With the Gap Band coming from Oklahoma, other artists would tease us by calling us cowboys. We didn't grow up on a ranch, but we took that style to the stage. We knew that it was corny, but at least it was ours.

Pearl Cleage

I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things.

Octavio Paz

If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

Phoebe Snow

I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don't have any time for you.

In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.

The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.

Michael Wallace

We do some newer songs too by artists like The Goo Goo Dolls, Jack Johnson and Jet.

Jess Glynne

I would like to see myself with some successful albums, and I'd love to be working with new artists as well as continuing to release my own material. I'd also like to be settled in a lovely place with a lovely partner and gorgeous mini ginger Jess!

Marvin Hamlisch

I would love to find other pop stars who would be willing to tour with our orchestra. One of the benefits of James Taylor was that he had orchestrations. Many stars do not. My wish list would be exceedingly long, and at the top of it would be Kenny G and Carly Simon. Of course, the cost of some of these artists might be prohibitive.

Most fraud like that is internal. People take the data from inside, steal it, and go. Those con artists are very good. There's no limits to their imagination on trying to get the information they need to rip you off.

Most artists are making more money on tours than from CDs. That's why ticket prices and the cost of business went up. ... We don't voluntarily go out and write bigger checks.

Matt Brown

When the artists are painting live with the musicians playing, both of them get influence from each other. People also want to stick around a lot longer when an artist is doing something live. Artists have sold a lot more artwork than they normally would.

The artists were referring to their own traditions, but because of the melting pot of the group they moved beyond that as well.

The artists themselves talk to young people about their own financial journey toward empowerment.

Ray Charles

The artists ... that's what makes it so good for us,

The artists that are coming to this festival are some of the finest that you will ever see or hear, and yet they are not stars. This is not a festival about stars, but it's a festival about great music, great dance and great art.

The artists in the gallery said, Get the gallery moved. They realized the old gallery was going to close.

The artists are bending over backward for us. We should have 80 percent of the same lineup.

Barbara Kruger

I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.

Bat for Lashes

Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.

We are delighted to partner with Music Choice whose broadband service is strengthening the connection between artists and fans. Universal Music is committed to cultivating online entertainment by offering our consumers even more ways to enjoy the musical experience.

We'll have a group of artists in different locations outside the center, painting in different mediums. A lot of people like to watch artists work.

We'll be using our forensic tools, imaging technology and our artists to help with the unidentified bodies, ... Our fear is that, as the waters decline, there are going to be thousands.

Wyclef Jean

When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians or artists, and artists come in and spend their money there, and they'd rather do that, as opposed to getting the headache. So they pay someone else to get the headache.