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- Nov 07, 2020
Artist Quotes
The discipline and feeling behind making art.
This group of quotes describes the artist as someone shaped by training as much as instinct, whether that means starting a project from a visual idea or treating color and sound as tools for emotion. It pairs naturally with our broader Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal, and they were pretty bad. I was in my late twenties when I wrote the first song with him that made any sense to me about what I was rooted in and what spoke for me as an artist. That was 'Diamond in the Rough.'
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a go-out-with-a-band artist. I'm an intimate, storytelling folk artist. It guides the writing and makes for a concert that I'm proud of.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have mixed feelings about Napster. I like what it can do for an unsigned band. It can help them sell 10,000 records. But for an established artist, there's already so much piracy around. They need to regulate it.
- Boundaries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm writing for a particular artist, I definitely think about their past records, pay attention to the type of tempos that they like. If I have the privilege of actually being in the session with the artist, I just like to have a conversation with them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
- Navy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My stepfather was in the navy, so I got to know a side of Chile that is not what you would expect from an artist.
- Nov 07, 2020
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the only one to go to university, and the last thing my dad wanted was for me to be an artist. But later on, when I bought him a house in the south of Spain, he thought it was all right then.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020