Quotes About Artist

As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

I ain't a new artist, I'm good in the studio, I don't need somebody to hold my hand in the studio. I don't even really want them all over my album or anything like that.

I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.

I consider myself to be an entertainer, given that I'm most known as MGK "the rapper" I don't have a problem with the label, I just want the people to know that I am much more than that.

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

I listen to a lot of music. But I definitely haven't looked at an artist and like thought I want to have a song like this.

I feel like when you're an artist and you first come out - people don't want you to be as creative as you could possibly be as a musician. More so they really want you to stick to something.

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity." Frost found the experience exhilarating.

There was a barber and his wife. And he was beautiful. A proper artist with a knife but they transported him for life. And he was beautiful

Jeffrey Meyers' Modigliani: A Life,

Any honest reflection on life will deal with imperfection. The difference in a Christian artist's work should be that the depraved will seem depraved, and the ugly will seem ugly. Christians should be distinguished from those who suggest that depravity is normal or that evil is good.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

If we see someone, an artist who just does magnificent art, and especially if they're already doing Ghost-related art, we just reach out and start collaborating. But when it comes to the record sleeves and the tour posters, I'm usually quite particular.

If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am an artist.

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

One of the smartest things Kickstarter has done, in my opinion, is give people a great shopping experience related to the arts, that funds the arts. In essence, they've gotten people to pay $200 for a t-shirt plus the feeling of participation in another artist's endeavor.

Respect to the Smashing Pumpkin the Black Key and the King of the Leon. They all have the real heart and work to make the people happy.

Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it's never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

My dream collaboration would probably be Sam Smith.

I think Sam Smith's dad got a huge loan or something to help his career. Those things can help artists get attention, but I guess my song 'Say You Won't Let Go' proved it's about the song.

When I'm headlining something like the Up in Smoke Tour, that's when I'm headlining something.