"I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember."
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"Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician."
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"Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be."
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"It's a social media time, where you have YouTube and everything it's kind of like you see my career grow up on camera. But a lot of the things that you would see from artists would be behind the scenes that nobody would know about before, now it's all on display."
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"I just started to understand my craft, what I wanted to do as an artist. It's just a growing process. Figuring out exactly what I wanted to do and obviously I toured a whole bunch. I did a lot of song writing for other people and then just settled back into my zone."
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"All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person."
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"I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done!"
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"To be an artist means not to compute or count."
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"The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing."
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"Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through."
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"I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist."
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"There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there."
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"The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love."
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"I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second."
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"Despite the fact that I trust the people at major labels who tell me that they want to offer me a home as a "stable artist," who can just do what he does for the long haul, time has shown that it rarely works out that way - the bottom line is the bottom line, not mention the threat of mergers and firings and whatnot, and people get dropped."
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"Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting."
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"I think that most successful artists - not always, but a lot of them, in any field - have business savvy as well and have some sense of marketing acumen. I think the key is to be good enough at it that it doesn't overwhelm your aesthetic interests, but have just enough that you make smart decisions."
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"To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
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"The eye is the best of artists."
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"I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy."
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