Artists Quotes

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.

I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.

Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course.

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

We could ask artists from abroad to come in too, so that there could be a mixing and matching of skills from Europe, America and here which would widen our world.

It's about finding great artists and being part of their careers.

And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

I hope the business sense that artists like Jay-Z and Nelly are showing rubs off on the young players. I want somebody to stand up and say, Look, these kids got it going on. We want to be a part of them.