Artist Quotes - Page 33

• I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

  Mike Shinoda

  Mom, Kids, Years

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• Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

  Paul Simon

  Art, Mean, Firsts

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• When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

  Jessica Simpson

  Records, Want, Shows

  "The Unnewlywed". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 13, 2007.

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• I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.

  Yoko Ono

  Style, Flow, Exciting

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• When you go to war, both sides lose totally.

  Yoko Ono

  War, Sides, Loses

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• Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

  Yoko Ono

  Fans, Lennon

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• The industry is a menace to artists.

  Nikki Sixx

  Menace, Industry

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• Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

  Yoko Ono

  Clothes, Musician, Sixty

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• I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, Changed, Five

  "Yoko Ono: I Feel Invisible". Interview with Hannah Elliott, www.forbes.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  Yoko Ono

  Communication, Activist, Feels

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• I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

  Yoko Ono

  Block, Thinking, Trying

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• Life with another person is always difficult.

  Yoko Ono

  Difficult, Persons

  "Interview: Yoko Ono". www.askmen.com.

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• Many incredible artists die before they were famous.

  Yoko Ono

  Incredibles, Dies

  "Yoko Ono on Lennon, Love, Feminism, and Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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• My life was pretty rough.

  Yoko Ono

  Rough

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• People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

  Yoko Ono

  People, Narcissist, Courses

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• I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Gold, Cuffs, Pelicans

  Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 6, 2012.

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• The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves.

  Yoko Ono

  Aquarius, 1960s, Conventional

  "Interview: Yoko Ono". www.askmen.com.

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• 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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• What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

  Yoko Ono

  Thinking, World

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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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• When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

  Kevin Smith

  Self, Trying

  Interview with Cameron Martin, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 19, 2012.

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• In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

  Yoko Ono

  Rocks, People, Avant Garde

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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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