Artists Quotes · Page 22

“We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just...carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.”

— Sam Starbuck

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

— Anonymous

All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

— Lionel Hampton

We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.

— R. O. Blechman

the capacity to work feeds on itself and has its own course of development. This is what artists have going for them.

— Anne Truitt

The most popular rap artists aren't supposed to be rapping about being broke.

— Danny Brown

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

— Tessa Thompson

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

— Anthony Geary

“Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got…

— Jennifer Egan

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind…

— Nile Rodgers

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They…

— Bryan White

I think with certain artists you want to hear their album... and then there are other artists who I like where maybe…

— Rick Rubin

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them…

— Eric Kandel

With some artists, I've noticed that after their songs have been licensed, on their next album you can totally hear they're trying…

— Priscilla Ahn

I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues…

— Wolfman Jack

A common sense of humour and a love of music is really important, as I love all types of music. You name…

— Adam Rodriguez

I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to…

— Raini Rodriguez

God knows that we are creative artists when it comes to our lives. On one day, he gives us clay for sculpting,…

— Anonymous

“That’s what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks’ thoughts. Feel their…

— Dan Simmons

Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts…

— Ryan Kavanaugh

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that…

— John Sebastian

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the…

— Arne Glimcher

One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I…

— Jeff Bridges

“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a…

— Abhaidev

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?

— Alexander Theroux

I'm probably not as big of a hip-hop fan as people may think. I'm not up on all the artists and know…

— Stuart Scott

I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each…

— Justin Chon

“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.”

— Gustave Flaubert

For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.

— Victoria Chang

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

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

— Marsilio Ficino

“But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.”

— William S. Burroughs

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

— Brad Holland

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

— Virginia Woolf

One of the first country artists I got to work with was Carrie Underwood at the Grammy Awards.

— Orianthi

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

— Thomas Kinkade

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

— Eddy Grant

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

— Brian Michael Bendis

I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

— Colin Mochrie

“Creation is like anything else good: You have to wait on it; ambition has killed more Artists than indolence.”

— Charles Bukowski