Quotes About Artist

I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

When I like a musician I want to see a picture or a video of them.

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.

Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

Taparak is a city of silicon and stone, shaped as if by an artist's hands. It was my home too, in the beginning.

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

The big pay-off was to work as an artist and gain some shred of respect from your friends, who were also artists. But there was never any notion that you could make a living out of art. On the rare occasions you had a gallery show, and sold a little work, well, that was just gravy.

I've established myself as a proper artist. And it's ridiculous when anyone questions my credibility - I've had four number one singles and I've also sold over two and a half million albums. I shouldn't have to convince people that I'm credible, but I'm glad people are now taking me more seriously.

I was an artist - I fancied myself an artist - I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.

When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.

'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.

Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my grandfather's studio just up the hill. It was a solitary childhood, but I loved it.

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

Anyone who likes Static-X will definitely like my solo record.