Artist Quotes - Page 17

• Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.

  Jason Aldean

  Song, Thinking, Bars

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• As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there's a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In '05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.

  Jason Aldean

  Years, Trying, Wave

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• I think from an artist standpoint, you have to put out music that you feel like represents you and things you feel like your crowd wants to hear. And if that drives them to go and download the album or the single, that's what we want.

  Jason Aldean

  Thinking, Albums, Crowds

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• I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.

  Jason Aldean

  Thinking, Awards, Names

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• I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?

  Jason Aldean

  Thinking, Nashville, Years

  "Jason Aldean: At my show, 'you're going to have a good time'". Interview with Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2012.

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• There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.

  Jason Aldean

  Country, People, Style

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• When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?

  Sholom Aleichem

  Heard

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• People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

  Tori Amos

  Careers, People, Assuming

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• I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

  Ian Anderson

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

  Laurie Anderson

  Thinking, Capability, Screens

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• I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

  Criss Angel

  Life, Thinking, People

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• I do greatly admire Australian artists.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Admire, Australian

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• A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Athlete, Schedules, Literature

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• Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

  Sebastian Bach

  Real, Copying, Skid Row

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• I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

  Kevin Bacon

  Struggle, Views, Voice

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• I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

  Erykah Badu

  Firsts, Performances

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• I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

  Antonio Banderas

  Mean, Games, Risk

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• The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

  Lester Bangs

  Art, Mistake, Firsts

  Lester Bangs (2013). “Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll”, p.115, Anchor

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• We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

  John Banville

  Sentimental, Tough, Artist Love

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• The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

  P. T. Barnum

  Art, Drama, Envy

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• Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Agency, Creative, Stupidity

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• An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

  Jacques Barzun

  Reality, May, Duty

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• I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really messy. I'd never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.

  Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Kids, Winning, Perfect

  Jean Michel Basquiat, Rudy Chiappini (2005). “Basquiat”, Museo D'Arte Moderna Citta Di Lugano

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• The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

  Charles Baudelaire

  History, Dueling, Study

  "Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud".

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• The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Creativity, Body, Source

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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