Artists Quote by Gilbert O'Sullivan Download Open image “Some artists say 'Don't categorize me.' I'm saying 'You can't categorize me.'” — Gilbert O'Sullivan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Artists Me Say Saying Some
I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me. — Angel Haze Copy Share Image
Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a… — Kalan Sherrard Copy Share Image
I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box. — Sean Kingston Copy Share Image
People classify things and that's fair enough. But if somebody wants to make something different, that doesn't make them any less of an artist. — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
People always want to categorize you and say oh, you are in this category, but there is nothing that I limit myself to doing.… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves. — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed. — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
I never really liked being categorized with others. I'd rather be labeled as me. Nothing more, nothing less... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I write lyrics and an Americanism slips in, I always cut it straight out. I can't use the word 'babe,' for instance. It… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The writing is everything of course but you can't be making records and not be willing to go out there and perform. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
The perception that if you're not on 'Top Of The Pops' you're dead and buried is a good one for pop music, because 'TOTP'… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'd love to see myself on sale in shops. It tickles me, does the idea of me being marketed. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
Nothing Rhymed,' my first single in England, was a nice ballad, which I thought would sound like a songwriter typical of the day -… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think if every song I had was, 'I love you, you love me,' there would be a problem. — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
What I would hate to go through is what happened in the mid-90s playing in front of a half-empty theatre, which prompted me to… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
“Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
“Artists are never poor, they just don't get enough time to make money !” — Brahmananda Patra Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at… — Adam Kluger Copy Share Image
I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career.… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I haven't talked to any young artists for a long time. But if we did sit down, I'd definitely tell them my viewpoint. If… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
