#artist

I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house. ↗

— Jackie DeShannon

#artists #come #different #elvis #enough

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that. ↗

— Otis Blackwell

#artist #back #best #figured #get

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. ↗

— William Blake

#bad #between #copy #deal #difference

That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artist #freedom #himself #huge #huge number

The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#american idol #artists #attention #directed #factor

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters. ↗

— Harry Callahan

#become #best #experience #guarantees #journey

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. ↗

— Brad Dourif

#artists #camera #director #film #goes

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#architects #artists #change #fact #implement

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#generous #give #got #honest #i

I've been asking myself: 'Why put together these things - CDs, albums?' The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it's artistically viable. It's not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it's not obvious or even conscious on the artists' part. ↗

— David Byrne

#answer #artistically #artists #asking #been