Quotes About Artists

It's important to me to reach deep into the community and promote Latino artists.

I've never been into artists promoting drugs.

I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.

MTV Unplugged is an interesting platform. They are doing a good job promoting a kind of music that ought to be heard.

When I do listen to music, I'm more prone to listen to the people I've always listened to: George Jones, Otis Redding, Alison Krauss and Emmylou Harris.

Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

Once we realized what happened to Boney M., we wanted to come to the States. In Europe, artists just don't have the same protection they do over here.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

I've been debating with people over what an album actually means in 2018. Certain artists who have paid their dues and proven themselves have almost the privilege to put out a full length album.

He had slowed up to avoid the inevitable end of his thought: --the frontiers of consciousness. The frontiers that artists must explore were not for her, ever. She was fine-spun, inbred--eventually she might find rest in some quiet mysticism. Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit. --Not for you, he almost said. It's too tough a game for you.

The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists.

The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the careful observance of rules, few could attempt to be artists, and a fair number of these were quite good. But when art, instead of being understood as creation, became merely an expression of feelings, then anyone could be an artist, because everyone has feelings.

Tutti sentono. Tutti pensano. Però non tutti sentono con il pensiero o pensano con l'emozione. Per questo le persone sono molte e gli artisti sono pochi.

Artists know they need to have digital presences to build and bolster their fan base, and fans have exploited that fact.

I think that there should be more artists that want to be the escape for people, for the fans, for the public.

I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.

I don't know if I actually respect other artists as people as much as I should. I look at their work as excellent data that feeds my mind as nature feeds my body.