Quotes About Artists

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separates artists from the rest of us, like making art or music or painting or whatever is some magical thing that you have to be inspired to do, and special people do it.

I have worked with several art directors and production designers who are just magnificent. Dave Getz, Paul Felix, Ian Gooding... just amazing artists, and I would say, if I had anything to do with it, I just pick good artists!

It's sad that people forget sometimes that there is a whole legitimate world of artists and actors out there that work their entire life, every day on perfecting their craft, but yet don't get any acknowledgement for their extraordinary commitment to their profession.

Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.

Digital sound is damaging music; it's damaging the artists. It's so degrading.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.

Copyright is not the thing that makes artists money, it's only for their brokers and distributors.

We've got to celebrate all diverse artists and actors and 'Aladdin' does that really well.

We made a commitment to making diverse stories with diverse characters brought to life by diverse artists.

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic.

There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

Growing up with music as a kid - I used to feel like artists were writing songs about me falling in love.

I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in... it sucks that people tear you down.

As artists we have an extraordinary and rare privilege to tell the stories of our people, our land, our culture. They grip us, tear us apart, and put us back together. We are our stories.

Okay, I like the Clash. I like Tears for Fears. I like A-ha.

I grew up listening to a lot of very smart pop records by artists like Kate Bush, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prince, Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears, The The.

'The X Factor' seems to be more about building up personalities and people in tears. And it's not a new idea. The pre-Beatles pop world was full of manufactured pop stars. The thing is that you can't imagine any of the artists you look back at and admire ever going on 'The X Factor.'

I love Willie Nelson's 'Phases And Stages'; there's so many songs from The Band and Bob Dylan that have gotten me through hard times, like 'Tears Of Rage.' I love Karen Dalton's 'In My Own Time' and Skip James.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.