Quotes About Artist

What keeps an artiste going is the adulation of the masses.

To write a song is one thing, to get it to No.1 is another and to have a respected artist cover it is incredible. It's great to know my songs will be around for a long time.

I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.

I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay man. I want to reveal what I know about loneliness.

I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

If I did a show and didn't do Hootie songs, I would be ripping people off.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

I've never really thought of myself as just an actor; I always thought of myself as aspiring to be an artist, and an artist has to take risks and put himself on the line.

I'm not really rocking with mixtapes no more. EPs and albums - that's it.

I play sad bastard music. For the money.

Ksenia Sobchak as president is like Sergei Shnurov as an artist. It's satire. It's a very high-level art project.

I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I'm not a scientist, I'm a martial artist.

As an artiste, I take up roles where there is scope to perform and that can reach out to the audience.

We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.

Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that's when I decided to become a music artist.

I have great respect for Harvey as an artist, and owe him and his brother a debt of gratitude for the early success in my career, including the Oscar.

I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

I think a 23-page ordinary comic is an investment for the artist, but if you're doing something 60 to 104 pages, that's a really big investment for an artist. So unless you've got someone who wants to pay you while you're doing it or up front, it's kind hard to get someone to do that with you, unless you're the artist yourself.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.