True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The reward for attention is always healing.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.
I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.
My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.
An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.
I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.
The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.
Actually, I think that a lot of the interviews and acoustic sessions and other things that artists fill their time with are really pointless and suck the energy out of the artist.
To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.
