Quotes About Artist

I started gravitating towards Soundcloud. So, that was my hustle and then I met my manager Justin in 2012 and we were just grinding it out in New York.

I just respect Kanye as an artist.

That's the beautiful thing about being an artist, is you can take risks and take chances and hopefully be secure enough to just keep going with it if you fall flat on your face.

For me, what's important is to be inspired and keep moving to grow as an artist and as a person.

I am a huge fan of R&B. I love R. Kelly and want to be the person every chick gets with, and 'Ghostdini' is one of the best albums I ever did.

I've been working a lot with this girl Kelly Kiara. She's amazing. She's going to be super important for R&B coming out of the U.K.

I have such respect for... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.

I play keyboards and have played on many a Toto record.

I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

Lil' Kim is my stage name and a character I use when I'm out working my livelihood.

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.

I'm Kiss the artist, and Jason the father. It's my job.

I always knew I was gonna be an artist. I was very confident in that.

After college, I joined TVB in Hong Kong as an 'artist.'

I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.

I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.

The control game has just been changed. The artist has a lot more control than the label, which is special. I feel like the fans crave that. I feel like they can tell when it's not genuine.

The big thing is I'm not with a major label. I've been independent since the get-go, and I've been very lucky to get some good advice on keeping hold of copyright and that kind of stuff.

It's a great feeling being with a label that respects what I do.

I'm looking at EarDrummers like a boutique label, like an Interscope or a Def Jam.

As an artist, your only way to battle your label if you have a discrepancy is to go to court. I don't understand why you can't both agree if you have an accounting problem to have a third party to assess the situation.

I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.

I've always been independent with my music. I've always run my own music label.

Labels are curators of taste, and the best ones know how to monetize what an artist is trying to do.