Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. J. McLean

Bill is an excellent teacher for all levels of artists because he is able to make them relax. He has a great sense of humor, which is important in a teacher.

Course built for 300 yard tee shot artists are not great course.

An integral part of the mission of Omaha Performing Arts is to bring the very best in national and international touring artists to our community.

People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

Marina Abramovic

Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time.

Damien Hirst

To me it's like, this is the kind of world I live in and these are all the people who are artists who are doing what I'm doing, but in their own way.

This new franchise is a living dynamic visual history of some of the most important artists and movements in popular music, ... By tapping into the sounds of each decade and creating unique ways to tell these stories, we're confirming our commitment to being the destination for adults who are passionate about music.

Tiesto

There have been a lot of people involved in the growth of EDM's support in the U.S., from DJ/producers like David Guetta, Deadmau5 and Skrillex, to major festival organisers and pop artists of EDM integrating elements of dance music into their music.

We are very excited about this opportunity. The response from schools, community groups, and local artists has been extensive. Based on the interest we have received, outstanding student and community art will be displayed - including photographs; oil, watercolor and multimedia paintings; quilts; poetry and music - all with the theme of forests.

We are very excited about the diversity of artists and performances.

Tracy Byrd

With just us local guys doing the show, we were able to keep it free for the public. If we would have had other artists on the bill, then we would have had to pay them to be here.

We go to different cities (around the country) to introduce the contemporary Native American artists and to bring awareness to the work.

We certainly have the artists in the pipeline to have a great 2006. There are a lot of fresh artists out there.

We are trying to revitalize things here. We want to make Calvert home to the three A's - authors, artists and antiques.

We are trying to revitalize things here, ... We want to make Calvert home to the three A's - authors, artists and antiques.

We think it's important that you talk to the artists who created the artwork. We feel the artists should always be at the booth.

You get people excited and there's a trickle-down effect. Just the names create interest. Robert Cray (who will perform at the Grand in August), and national artists like that, I love seeing that kind of stuff.

Madonna Ciccone

I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.

Paul Weller

I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.

Deborah Cox

Whatever you feel is going to be truthful and maybe some artists don't feel like their songs are, have the same impact when they're remixed.

We tend to think of security issues as being computer-based. But many scam artists use the telephone and simple false pretenses to trick people out of data.

We speak to the artists about the benefit for the kids and they usually come in under favorable terms.

We try not to repeat as much from what we've done in the past as much as we can help it. And we try not to use artists who have played too much in this area. Coming up with delicacies always helps the show.

Geronimo

There's more per capita than any other place in the world in Texas, ... Country music just brings them out. Over the years it's been a hotbed of artists that made it up to Nashville that started here in Texas.

There's not the same name recognition for Native artists as there is for the more mainstream . . . like Pollack, or Monet or Picasso.

I started working with artists in Ohio, and we started a thing called Art Night where people would bring their work and present it. It grew from six people to over 200. It was very positive.

Jewel

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.

I sense a frightening surprise in that category. It's a very tough category. Each of those artists have their constituency with the voters, and none of them are going to be big enough ... to steal the constituency of someone else.

Bryan Adams

I've been probably one of the most boot-legged artists ever. It's just another way of getting music that is wanted by the people to the people and now you can just download from the internet, so it might be different times now for musicians.

A. R. Rahman

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

Barry McGee

Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.

Teju Cole

Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking.