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Artists Quotes by David Byrne
- I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's…
- Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
- I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists…
- Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know that…
- Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can…
More Artists Quotes
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu
- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. — Honore de Balzac
- We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it. — John Banville
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
- Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger
- The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end… — Adele
- To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett
- I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't… — Bono
- The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were… — Bono