Artist Quotes - Page 127

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 wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

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.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.

The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist.

I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

As a conscious rap artist, you should not want to be in a gangster market. You should be trying to establish your own market, create a place where you can be yourself and make some money and feed your family.

The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

I'm not one of those artists who doubts that they made dope-ass records. From the first record to now, each record has gotten better. I started dope, so I've just gotten doper and doper and dopest and super dope.

Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

Record labels today are much less patient: Artists have a bad record, and they're gone.

There are a lot of young artists that are dope.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside of a set of expectations or assumptions about what the Kehinde Wiley brand is. And I'd like to walk towards something that's a bit more unpredictable, human.

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.

Every young artist has to do it one way, his [or her] way, and the hell with patterns. Remember who you are and where you are and what you are doing.... And never take advice, including this.

All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.