Quotes About Artists

I hate seeing people getting a raw deal and artists not being in control of what they are doing. It happens all the time.

Brendon's more of a Peter Gabriel fan, and I'm more of a Ray Davies fan.

I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

I had a lot of fun during all the performances, but the most memorable one was 'Born This Way.' Lady Gaga is one of our favorite artists, and I remember the Once in America had the best reaction when we performed that song for them.

I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

I guess it's easier to bash rap artists than to talk about the country's real problems, such as the AIDS crisis, poverty, the cost of education, crime or the gun-toting white supremacist militias.

New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

I have a real interest in working with younger Native artists. I think it's a very important way for Native people to communicate the realities of our culture and remember our ancestors.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.

Some people have their problems with the Grammys, and it doesn't recognize so many great artists.

I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music.

I think musicians naturally gravitate toward music that sounds real.

Great music and great artists create their own music and look and are not manufactured.

The early '90s was the best time for hip-hop. The Cube's, the Snoop's, the Dre's - that was a golden time with great music, great albums, great groups, everything.

The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot of artists. I have a beautiful deck that looks over the canyon and Los Angeles on one side, so it's very pretty at night. It's a great opportunity to catch up with friends.

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their artistry by commercialization, and I don't want to belong to that bag.

I think there are more religious overtones in music because these artists want to be connected to greatness. What is greater or higher than God himself?

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.

I first heard Trouble in 2008. At that time I was on my grind, trying to work with all the next-up artists. I had sent him a couple beats; he had done a couple songs. We was always around the same age.

Anytime you've got artists singing songs, doing grooves that they don't want to do, it's terrible.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay.