Artists Quotes

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.

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.

The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art.

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans.

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists.

Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.