Artist Quotes - Page 31

• I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.

  Nicki Minaj

  Nice, Fans, Generations

  "‘American Idol’: Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey Address Their Feud, Insist ‘We’re All Professionals’" by Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 08, 2013.

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• I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

  Nicki Minaj

  Thinking, Rapper, Sound

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• My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'

  Nicki Minaj

  People, Goal, Hip Hop

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• Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

  Joni Mitchell

  Community, Feels, Isolated

  "Joni on Point". Interview With Nic Harcourt, www.latimes.com. June 7, 2009.

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• Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Jobs, Thinking, Shoes

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• A lot of people do talk about the demise of the album, but I still believe that if an artist tries hard to make a great album, people will buy it and listen to it as an album, rather than just a collection of random songs.

  Moby

  Song, Believe, People

  "With Destroyed, Moby Makes Sense of Shattered Musical Landscape". Interview With Scott Thill, www.wired.com. March 17, 2011.

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• And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

  Alfred Molina

  Reading, Successful, Thinking

  Interview With Sam Adams, film.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

  Meredith Monk

  Thinking, Challenges, Quality

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• I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Integrity, Want, Actresses

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• I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Aphrodisiac, Want, Celluloid

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• If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

  Alan Moore

  Would Be, Wanted, Audience

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• Filmmakers and artists always thrive during more liberal times.

  Michael Moore

  Filmmaker, Thrive

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• I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Character, Costumes, Film

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• I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

  Alanis Morissette

  People, Sides, Scared

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• I find as an artist if I'm not expressed relatively consistently, I get really depressed.

  Alanis Morissette

  Ifs, Consistently

  "Alanis Morissette: ‘Fame for Me Was Relatively Hollow’". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I'm excited about there being more of a sisterhood these days. Back in the '90s there was a lot of hate - the women I looked up to as artists were dissing me! It's not so patriarchal these days - there's more love and a lot less hate!

  Alanis Morissette

  Hate, Sisterhood, Excited

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• I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

  Steven Morrissey

  Groups, Imagine, Solo

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• I began to go to concerts when I was 12 years old. And I would stand there, the small imp that I was, and I would expect the world to be laid before me by these artists, and in some cases it was. So when I climbed onto the stage, I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been.

  Steven Morrissey

  Years, Singing, World

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• When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Country, Thinking, Land

  "Viggo Mortensen, King of The Road". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 23, 2009.

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• In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Book, Editing, Collaboration

  "Time, Volumes 172-173". Time Incorporated, p. 1, 2009.

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• A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

  Grandma Moses

  Artistic, Primitive, Sells

  "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

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• I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

  Edvard Munch

  Color, Saws, Quiver

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• It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

  Edvard Munch

  Rooms, Intention, Should

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• Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Meaningful, Children, Book

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• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  Nas

  New York, Attitude, War

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

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