Quotes About Artist

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.

The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better as an artist for them.

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.