Quotes About Artists

Actually all artists love Gujarat because Gujaratis shower respect and a lot of love on them.

I don't watch the news too much, and I don't look too deep into bad news about artists.

Most artists lose their voice, their hair, and their bands. That's not going to happen to me.

No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.

Bands don't play the whole LP. They play a selection of the songs that they like.

Sadness isn't an emotion that most cool bands want to talk about.

My parents are both artists, they had a theater company in the Bay Area for a long time called Virago. I never really had a choice - when I was two years old, I was the baby in a play that they did, and it kind of just happened naturally.

If that day come, and artists I've had incredible runs with just break my heart one day, you know what? I still got to do stuff that was actually really incredible. When that day comes, I'll deal with it. Until then, I'll be grateful for today.

When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.

Flattery isn't the right word for his portrait. It's empathy—the same quality in the sculptures that surround them. The ancient artists were devotees above all else. Without love of their subject, they'd just be cutting stone; their adoration is what brings it to life.

Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europeans really noticed this art. Its discovery then had a strong influence on Braque, Matisse, and Picasso.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

Well, for me, I was always attracted to frontmen - or artists in general - that were really passionate about what they did.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

James Blake, Jai Paul, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Sohn, Kwabs, Sampha, Lil Silva, and Brandy, always. They all have soul. Deep soul.

When the magazines talk about artists they talk about the Paul McCartneys, the Paul Simons, they never talk about me. So their readers and contemporary artists are never going to check me out because they're not reading about me.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

I really pay attention to makeup artists and what they do with me.

I pay serious attention to new artists. I pay attention to dope artists.

People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make.