Quotes About Artist

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

I'm basically a musician.

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.

The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.

When we did the 'Skin and Bones' tour I didn't even own an acoustic guitar, I had to borrow one from my friend.

I feel, as an artist, it's important for me to write, and that's a big part of what my journey is - being able to write my stories and talk about stuff.

When you're home, I don't listen to my own music at home.

I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman not being able to be both and artist and a mother: that some very important creative crystal inside a woman would be shattered by the idea of having a child.

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

What matters to me as a creative artist is the credibility of the production house, the honesty in the script, and the way the filmmaker has conceived the characters in the narrative.

It wasn't until I became involved with 'Nashville' that I thought I had opportunities to record my music in a way that I would want to put it out into the world.

Nashville's been like my second home.

My favorite song used to be 'The Nasty Song' by this dude named Lil Ru. That was my jam!

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

Voilà!" said the artist, in perfect fucking French.

W]hat an artist does is fail," he writes. "The actualization fails to meet, equal, the intuition . . . there is no such thing as a 'successful artist.

The artist is by nature, one might say by definition, an anarchist. He lives in the freedom of his own imagination, and represents the experimental element of life. If "authority" should intervene and tell him what to think or to feel, the experiment would not be tried, the brain-child would be born dead.