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What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.
People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.
My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
If an artist doesn't have anything to say, he'll be quiet. Or he'll yell into the darkness until he finds something and hears something back.
The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.
Typically, in France, someone in my position should keep their mouth shut. I'm an entertainer, operating in the realm of pop, and it's often looked down upon for a pop artist to take a stand, to have convictions or opinions. But I don't think the two are incompatible or mutually exclusive.
That's how I started. I moved to New York City, and I was a makeup artist.
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.
For awhile there, I kind of hit the plateau. Anytime you do that as an artist, one of two things can happen... you're either going to start to fall back off, or you're gonna start to rise.
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
If you're an artist, you need to work. It doesn't matter how old you are, who you are. It doesn't matter if you're 12: if you draw, you draw. If you're 85 and you paint, you paint.
Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.
No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'
The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
I find myself walking these lines. Like I might be an artist, but I also might be an activist. And I'm trying to be both in a way that honors both and doesn't stray too far into either.
I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.
Kanye West - he's all over the place, and I think he defines what an artist is because none of his work is the same, and he's into what he's into.
I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.
The most basic excitement was the opportunity to work with Dave Cockrum. He was an artist I'd admired for years and our imaginations were ridiculously simpatico.
Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
An artist's responsibility is a lot. I can't deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your personal behaviour, future plans, etc.
I think the most important thing is you need to have a very, very clear idea of who you are as an artist before you let other people tell you who you are.
As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
Back in I want to say 2011, Taylor Swift was on her 'Speak Now' tour. She was kind enough to bring me out as one of the openers on that tour. Between her and Miranda Lambert, who also helped me out that year, I got a pretty non-typical first tour as a fellow artist.
It is probably like an artist. They see in their head what they want to draw, and they draw it. It is like I have a feeling inside me that I want to create on a horse, and that is what I do.
The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.
One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.
I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always secretly wanted to be an artist.
I never set out to be a cult cool artist. I always made music that I thought was pop.
I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.
When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.
When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
It's not easy to go from reality TV to being taken seriously as an artist, so I don't think I'll be doing reality TV again because of that.
There are so many things I want to do. Like, I want to get an artist, a musician, a photographer, and a bunch of dancers that I know and just travel across Africa and just film it and just see what happens. Do and learn as much as I possibly can. Luckily, I have a lot more time.
Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.
'Stans' can not see anything wrong with their favorite artist. They love everything they do. If the artist fart, they're like, 'OMG, that was the best-sounding fart I ever heard in my life. She farted on beat,' whatever. I'm an 'objective fan,' so I can give my opinion about things.
For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.
When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.
I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.
I hate that when you introduce yourself, and you're a rapper, sometimes you gotta say, 'I'm a musician.' Or, 'I'm an artist.' 'I'm a recording artist.' 'I'm a vocalist.'
Everything you write as an artist is about your legacy and your catalog and how you would look in a museum.
I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.
I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.
When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a writer and an artist when I grew up. So in college, I was an English major, and then I became a fine artist. But when I arrived in San Francisco in 1995, I figured I could leverage my artistic skills by becoming a Web designer and programmer.
If you looked at my resume in the years leading up to Flickr, I worked in a dive shop in landlocked Arkansas; I was a starving artist. I just arrived at the thing I love to do accidentally.
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
Young people have realised that an artist is in charge of what they're doing - this crazy cynicism that artists were puppets has disappeared.
It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.
I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
I have always found that if, while creating an artwork, the artist constantly feels that some accident would occur if he is not careful, then it is a very significant moment and a significant work.
I think I was very lucky to have grown up with an artist's studio in the house. It was a kind of life that was possible. Yeah, it made it kind of harder because the standards were higher, but there was no pressure.
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
When something happens in Africa, an artist will sing about it and stuff. We have all the records; we have everything. Free Mandela records and all that.
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
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