Artists Quotes · Page 31

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

— Al Jourgensen

“Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

When people say 'overnight success' I say 'oooo that was a long night...'

— Milana May

Out of all the R&B artists that have come out, I think my name has been used most in hip-hop songs.

— Keith Sweat

“Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.”

— Amit Kalantri

I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I…

— Owen Pallett

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.

— Alexander Skarsgard

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they…

— Norman Granz

I went to this Episcopalian school, and one day I came home and asked my mom, 'What religion are we?' She looked…

— Alexandra Cassavetes

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other…

— Meek Mill

I don't write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was…

— Anonymous

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience…

— John Banville

If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are…

— Phil Ramone

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and…

— Walter Kirn

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt…

— David Byrne

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all,…

— Joe Simon

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers…

— Kim Gordon

“The average artist has a naïve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, how it works, what is involved…

— Loren Weisman

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists.…

— Edward Ruscha

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears…

— Michael Haneke

'The X Factor' seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it's not a new idea. The…

— Jools Holland

“Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous…

— Zeena Schreck

I hate to sound like a romantic adolescent, but I believe artists don't generally see art as a career choice; they simply…

— Charles Saatchi

There is an indefinable quality possessed by some artists. You simply can't explain it.

— Vera-Ellen

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

— Lenny Kravitz

It's so easy to look at artists, like myself or whoever, and think their lives are perfect. That's just not a reality…

— Carly Pearce

“Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

— Annie Lennox

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell…

— Corey Taylor

Constant contact is what people require these days. It's tough on artists.

— Emily Robison

I think these days, new artists have a tendency to try to cut corners.

— Jason Mraz

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

— Mike Nichols

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

— Damien Hirst

The best videos were the ones where I became friends with the artists first.

— Spike Jonze

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

— Kate Bush

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

— Harry Harrison

What entrepreneurs and artists have in common is that they give the world something it didn't know it was missing.

— Daniel H. Pink