Quotes About Artist

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.

I think stopping any Muslim artist from performing at Ramlila is a cheap gimmick to gain publicity.

I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store.

The label doesn't do anything but put your record in the store, that's all they do. And tell you, you don't have a single... and tell you, it's not gonna sell... that's what the label does.

To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.

I just follow what inspires me as an artist and a storyteller, and stay true to myself in my work.

I don't see myself as an actor. I see myself as a storyteller.

Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your instincts as a storyteller.

I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.

I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.

Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I've literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It's not like I psyche myself; I don't do any of that.

I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

It's not always about working with the hottest artist. I sometimes go for challenges although people look at me strangely like, 'Why are you doing that?!' However, with a risk sometimes comes a huge reward. It's about having the vision to be able to turn a challenge into something, and then you win the Heisman.

For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people's lives.

semihippie sorta-kinda-artists who cobble together a living one way or another." I bristled a touch. "I'm a sorta-kinda-artist, you know." "Really? You don't strike me as a sorta-kinda woman, Bekah. Seems like you'd go all out.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. —PABLO PICASSO

Violence is central in our lives, a constant and unavoidable reality. Experience is not a linear construct moving from one point to another - childhood to maturity, "bad" to "good," beginning to end - but a wheel turning around a point that shifts between hope and despair. "At the still point of the turning world," the job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate family is an actor of any kind.

As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!