Artist Quotes - Page 208

And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

'YOU AREN'T TALENTED' - it cuts right to the fear of every artist.

We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.

The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special. It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record.

Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

The seeds of Illumination's origin sprang from an idea lead singer Philip Bailey had of collaborating with new generation of soul artists for his next solo album. The idea of illumination is vibrant and positive. Earth Wind Fire collaborating with the new soul movement made sense because the thrust of their music is still about playing instruments and utilizing vintage sounds, only in today's setting.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists.

What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective and his process, which to me is a lot like the artist.

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I have a bone to pick with.

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.