Quotes About Artists

Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.

Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.

I'm always interested in seeing how other artists work. I want to know what their working patterns are. I even like to know if they listen to music when they draw or what time of day they draw, even materials they use, what they research, if they use photographs.

I have a lot of respect for these rock photographers. You realize that some of them were really led into the inner circles of some of these artists and bands. And you see how those photographs really capture the artist, the moment.

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

Physically, it's getting impossible for me to travel that much. I want to support my artists by showing up at their openings, but I can't always be in Hong Kong one minute and Geneva the next.

Four Tet is somebody I respect a lot. There are other artists I admire like jazz pianist and composer Marc Moulin.

Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.

There's a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There's a lot us artists would change about the induction ceremony and who they pick.

I'm aware of the other drag artists with makeup lines, and I celebrate them. The pie is big and there's room for everybody.

We're focused on growing the pie so the artists can go back to making a meaningful amount of money.

I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.

Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline of old racism, but we are witnessing a new kind of racialising.

For artists, looking back in time for ideas is commonplace, but there's an overwhelming sense of '70s and '80s nostalgia in California musician Ariel Pink's music. It's impossible to separate 'Round and Round' from the anachronism, and there's no loving one without loving the other.

I really enjoy Lana Del Rey, and Pink Floyd are amazing.

The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

I don't care about being a pioneer. People act like it would be cool to be a pioneer. I'm okay to be looked at as that, but it's just that we don't get transmitted our cultural heritage as women artists.

The last thing we want is for radio to say that they can't afford to play our artists and turn off the pipe.

It's the big boys, the Googles of this world, that are already benefiting from piracy and not paying the artists a dime.

Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively.

I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.

What's happened to the music industry, from my perspective, is a lot of great music is behind the wall that can't get through, and therefore, a lot of artists are getting discouraged.