Art Quote by Richard Carpenter

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

— Boy George

I'm not interested in artistic records for the sake of making artistic records where they're so cool no one listens to them.

— Lari White

I'm making entertainment, but I'm making art. This is my art. Hopefully, it's profitable, hopefully it makes money, but at the end of the…

— Morgan Spurlock

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

— Mika

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

— Dan Auerbach

When you become a commodity to a record label because you're making them millions of dollars, you can take all of your artistic integrity…

— Mark McGrath

As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

— Isaac Hanson

I plan to make records as long as people wanna keep listening to them.

— Darius Rucker

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

— Mos Def

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

— Al Yankovic

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station,…

— Paul Weller