#artist

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#country #country music #cowboy #cowboy hat #dressed

The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins' record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#artists #asked #atlantic #came #collins

There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best. ↗

— Graham Coxon

#any #art #art student #artists #being

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#always #art #artist #books #choose

For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. ↗

— Ice Cube

#dancers #given #interesting #me #most

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen. ↗

— James Spader

#afford #artistic #best #between #choose

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#art #art form #artist #deserves #felt

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers. ↗

— Kip Winger

#feel #general #i #need #producers

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#artistic #atlantic #between #central #economic

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#bring #him #into #limelight #ready