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• Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu
• A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious… — 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… — 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… — Adele
• To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and… — Arnold Bennett
• I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from… — 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… — Bono
• The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when… — Bono

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