Han Solo: Jabba, you're a wonderful human being.
I basically run on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. I'm losing a third of the power.
The disabled people that do sport, they don't think about what they don't have but try to get better with what they do have. That is the same for me.
I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.
Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.
We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet in "Mad World: An Oral History of the New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Cae...
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.
