Quotes About Artist

I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.

First off, I absolutely hate the term 'trip-hop.' It was a term that made it seemed like I was trying to turn the music into something else. I was always influenced by New York hip-hop, since forever, since I was a kid.

As a musician, you want to be your own favorite artist and be able to make the music that is an accumulation of all your favorite influences.

Music changes constantly, especially when you're a 'pop' artist. What's mainstream or pop always has new influences, new sounds, and I love that challenge of keeping up with it, which is important as a pop artist.

I was a very insecure, self-conscious kid, and as an artist even more so.

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.

My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

I don't know if I'm necessarily a role model, but hopefully I can inspire any artist - Latin or otherwise - to do this thing for a living.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.

It's the strong will of an artist that really inspires me.

I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.

The most inspiring thing as an artist is when someone says, 'I believe in you'; sometimes that works even better than Grammys.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

If I hear a song that I like, my first instinct is to find out about who made it.

One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the blue. An artist should be instinctive.

I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

I don't consider myself a great drummer. I consider myself just a music fan that's a very, very passionate artist, and the drums just happen to be my instrument.

He was not only instrumental in giving me the confidence I needed as an artist, but through the years he has given many other up-and- coming stars the confidence and true grit they have acquired by loving and listening to the music of Keith Whitley.