Quotes About Artist

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you.

It is by continuing to put out good work that the artist best shows his gratitude.

I feel people can relate to the struggling artist a little more sometimes than the big million-dollar country stars.

When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.

It has always been an ambition of mine to make a record. I'm lucky to have a good team behind me. A very different story to the poor struggling artist. I'm very lucky.

I was once a struggling artist, so I just want to help others, and provide my resources and connections and the people I know.

Age is a very psychological thing; I do not know how old I am if you ask my age. Age is calculated by when you get born, but I do not agree with that parameter. I sometimes feel like 25, sometimes 12 and at times 40, and I love that about myself as an artist. I am not stuck to a particular age.

I have so much respect for the genre of country music and for all the greats that have been a part of it. I'm a country singer, I'm a country fan, and I'm a student of country music.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

When any artist performs for students, it automatically means they are getting a young crowd.

I would have been an artist, because I studied art and history in school and college.

My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.

I just play intuitively and work the same way in the studio. I don't have any magical effects or anything that helps me to get my particular sound.

I'm a recording studio guy, an engineer, a songwriter and a guitar player, in that order.

I have my own studio down in Miami.

But it's like the horror of being in a studio with a blank canvas. I used to always run out of ideas because there are so many possibilities and I would just think, well what am I going to do now!

I definitely don't like red carpets. I go on the red carpet because I have to but I'm not a big fan. That's not my thing. I'd rather be in the studio making music and performing.

I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can.

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore it.

In most of the stuff that I've done over the years as a sideman, I wasn't really a session musician, because to me, a session musician is a guy who makes his living in the studio, and I never really did that.