Artist Quotes - Page 24

• We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.

  Yoko Ono

  People, Dignity, Telling The Truth

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• When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

  William Morris Hunt

  People, Occupation, Amused

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• Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

  Yoko Ono

  Song, Mines

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• Women artists are still treated differently from men.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, Treated, Stills

  "When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Humble, Hard Times

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• The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

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• The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Literature, World, Touring

  "In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

  Jessie J

  Strong, Believe, Vision

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

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• I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

  Jessie J

  Bonus, Wanted, Songwriters

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

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• I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

  LL Cool J

  Creativity, Listening, Hendrix

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• I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

  LL Cool J

  Careers, People, Able

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• When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

  Curtis Jackson

  Song, Tape, Firsts

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• I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.

  Marc Jacobs

  Tattoo, Teenager, Heart

  "Marc Jacobs Reveals The Naked Truth". GQ interview, gq.co.za. September 7, 2015.

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• Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

  Marc Jacobs

  Team, Doors, Years

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• I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

  Mick Jagger

  Creativity, Creative, Way

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• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Age, Desire

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• You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

  Donny Osmond

  Player, Wind, Roots

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• Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

  Jewel

  Anomalies, Able, Kind

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• Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Skills, Feelings, Communicate

  "Chuck Palahniuk answers your questions about everything but his books". AV Club Interview, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2007.

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• How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Wish, Doe

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• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

  Joe Jonas

  Men, Thinking, One Direction

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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

  Art, Lust, Crystals

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• Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

  Cesare Pavese

  Monk, States, Bourgeois

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

  Jay-Z

  Opportunity, Careers, Two

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• It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

  Pauline Kael

  Patience, Art, Waiting

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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