"Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas."
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"A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile."
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"I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years."
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"I've always said that the artist dies twice. And the first death is the hardest which is the career death, the creative death. The physical death is an inevitability."
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"I think the rap community always tells the truth. And I think that it's important that we listen to their voices so we can have a roadmap, because artists - almost every single artist in hip-hop, they paint a picture of society that's overlooked. The misogyny, the racism, the violence, the homophobia, these are things that we try to avoid instead of dealing with. All of that I see it so often."
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"People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists."
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"I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now."
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"I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by."
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"There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core."
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"Donald Trump's not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist."
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"I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job."
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"Most artists are making as much money now as they could have made... in the heyday of Def Jam [when the] Beastie Boys would sell 10 million records or DMX would sell 6 or 7 million records. Those records are one thing, but then all the other ways to exploit the emotional relationship between artist and community is so much greater that I would guess that they're making as much or more money than they could have ever made."
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"Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise."
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"[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself."
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"What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift."
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"... what the artist or creative scientist feels is not anxiety or fear; it is joy. I use the word in contrast to happiness or pleasure. The artist, at the moment of creating, does not experience gratification or satisfaction... Rather, it is joy, joy defined as the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualizing one's own potentialities."
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"Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being."
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"In England, pop music seems now to be exclusively for children. If an artist is no good, why is it necessary to have that artist repeatedly rammed in our face?"
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"All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists."
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"At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet."
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