Quotes About Artist

Shaft' is a great country song.

Having a first single is such a great opportunity for any artist... I'm very appreciative of the support country radio's given 'Could It Be.'

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.

The coolest party I've ever D.J.ed would have to be for the artist Damien Hirst. It was an amazing party in Berlin. I had such a great time, and people danced all night long.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

We do a cover of Charlie Puth's 'Attention' that I really, really love and I think really grooves.

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

Jagged Edge is one of my favorite R&B groups.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

I'm as guilty as anyone else of listening to music track by track.

I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

Mostly, I'm much more of a guitar player than I am a singer.

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that.

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

I have these habits. I'm not a crazy artist. Or am I?

We're gone for 280, almost 300 days a year. So 70 to 80 days I'm home every year. Being an artist, you just gotta be ready to miss certain things, like Halloween and all these kind of things that you used to be able to be free for. Birthdays, all this kind of stuff.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

What tragedies, what passions, what crimes had surrounded the idyll of Raoul and his sweet and charming Christine!... What had become of that wonderful, mysterious artist of whom the world was never, never to hear again?...

if he is to feel full satisfaction at the moment when Time lifts his own severed head by the hair, he must add to the execution some feature however small that is entirely his own and that he will never repeat. Only thus can he feel himself a free artist.

Beauty conveys truth, but not the way we thought. Aesthetic significance does not deliver truth about the human condition in general: it delivers truth about the condition of a particular human, the artist.