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"There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain."
"It's understandable that the music companies that are comprised of people that are successful by making good creative decisions - they have to decide which out of fifty artists is the next hot one, with no data to go from. It's an intuitive process, and that's what they do well when they're successful. They don't understand technology."
"It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence."
"I can't speak for what other artists should do. I can only tell you how I live."
"As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am."
"I don't want to limit myself as an artist and only do a certain sound."
"I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me."
"Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show."
"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
"As artists, we are eternally heartbroken."
"I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die."
"I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time."
"I am a black new wave artist."
"I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year."
"Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit."
"In terms of being a kind of popular artist figure and knowing how isolating that is, and knowing what it feels like to be skeptical of people, and to be taken advantage of, especially by your friends. That's a hard to pill to swallow, and we've been through that together, or watched each other go through it. It helps to have somebody that close to you who can relate. I can say with some confidence that I feel like Sky saved my life."
"I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to."
"Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation."
"My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end."
"As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing."
