Celebrity Quote by Diana Ross

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where…

— Jane Campion

“People are extremely hard to live with when they have a talent they aren’t able to use.”

— Stephen King

“I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring…

— Eudora Welty

“Why don’t you admit I’ve been robbed of my musical career because society can’t handle my innate sexuality?”

— Shelly Laurenston

“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.”

— Anonymous

“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not…

— Oscar Wilde

“...and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and audiences made…

— Hermann Hesse

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good…

— Leo Sayer

“If you have any talent at all it is far better to move your audience than amaze them.”

— Segovia Andre

“A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do…

— Bob Dylan