Quotes About Artists

I love Marty Robbins, I love Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline.

I'm an advocate of all mediums - it's a larger canvas for us as artists - but we have to keep in mind that celluloid film is what created this wonderful art form, and we have to keep it alive.

Laurel Canyon area music is legendary.

Here at Z100, we're kind of famous for breaking new artists and watching their careers bloom.

From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

When we go back to Samoa, where my mother was born, we always check out the art by local artists.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

When I lived in Chicago, it often felt like the same people who were going to all the little theater companies were the people who were working in them.

I grew up listening to a lot of Chief Keef, Lil B, all that.

When the Chicago rap scene came about, I listened to all of the upcoming artists like Lil Durk, Chief Keef and G Herbo.

My first influences were superhero artists.

On the artist side, we made a significant investment in very young artists from the very beginning of their careers and helped them become global superstars.

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were supported also by the state.

That's what this industry is all about - supporting artists and supporting storytellers and hearing the audience for what they want and need. There still is a lack of value for what black women want, yet we have proven to be one of the strongest consumers in the marketplace.

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

I think it's good news that cable television is so, so supportive of the Louis C.K.s, the Lena Dunhams, the Matthew Weiners, and the Vince Gilligans. There's just so many people fearlessly making their stuff, you know?

I think with artists and celebrities, you want to be simultaneously supportive of their conversions without putting too much hope and weight into it.

Like many artists, I have issues with anxiety and depression, so I try to live in a way that supports my mental health.

I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.