Artists Quotes

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

I was looking at making a shift in my career. I've been so blessed I'd like to be able to give that back. If I could find young artists, young performers I can nurture to have a career I would really like that.

Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

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.

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy.

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

If all I hired were cake decorators, our cakes would just look like cakes that people decorate. We do astounding work at Charm City Cakes and to do that you need people who think in astounding ways. Artists just think in different ways.

From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.