"As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member"
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"I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in."
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"There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services."
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"The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday."
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"Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need."
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"In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society."
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"Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there."
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"Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing."
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"Men who not religious or artists are fools."
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"An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic."
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"The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea"
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"The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express."
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"If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things."
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"The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself."
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"Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and skill to the reconstruction of animals from disarticulated skeletons. Charles R. Knight, most celebrated of artists in the reanimation of fossils, painted all the canonical figures of dinosaurs that fire our fear and imagination to this day."
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"I think as an actor, you're more like a dancer, and you have to use your body. I don't understand all these questions about nudity. It's a nonsense. He's an actor, an artist, so get on with it."
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"My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time."
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"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."
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"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."
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"The artists are now big brands."
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