After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom. — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films. — Ted Kotcheff Copy Share Image
There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just… — Guy Clark Copy Share Image
In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails. — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have;… — Joe Nichols Copy Share Image
The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians… — Tom DiCillo Copy Share Image
“What’s ensued is a battle over ethical conduct, artistic freedom, and censorship in which every side—the activist zealots who threatened violence, the… — Andrea K. Scott Copy Share Image
. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre,… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump,… — Aaron Bruno Copy Share Image
“Anyone I love takes away part of my freedom, but in that case it is I who wished it; and there is… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
The freedoms we have in Russia are just leftovers. Freedom of travel, which was completely nonexistent in the Soviet Union; artistic freedom… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
“Handel's yearning for independence from the traditional chains of patronage and his persistence in monitoring his productions resulted with unique developments concerning… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
I moved from Boston to Los Angeles, and took every opportunity that came along my way, trusting that God had a great… — Gianna Simone Copy Share Image
Not worrying about the cost of materials and tools extends my artistic freedom. — Jim Rowe Copy Share Image
You can't have artistic freedom if you have to think about seven different aspects of your own job all the time. It… — Lisa Stansfield Copy Share Image
Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll. — John Cale Copy Share Image
I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot. — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
We had a heroic attitude to artistic freedom, and we thought normal contracts were a bit vulgar - somehow not punk. But… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
I've always appreciated people like Graham Parker or Loudon Wainwright III, who spend their entire lives writing songs and working their asses… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and… — Ashlee Simpson Copy Share Image
We were kind of caught up in the genre trap. We didn't really have a lot of artistic freedom. They wanted us… — Mark McGrath Copy Share Image
I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
I liked radio, or podcasting. I like talking minus the camera and the script part. All those mediums are different, and they… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
“Wokeism's impact on free speech becomes pronounced when it leads to the cancellation of individuals expressing opinions, even through the medium of… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“I was not doing what I was told to do. And they sued me for making music "uncharacteristic of Neil Young." That… — Neil Young Copy Share Image