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Artists Quotes by John Lennon
- And, because my role in society —or any artist or poet's role— is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people…
- These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I…
- I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists…
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- 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