#artist

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist. ↗

— Edward Burns

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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. ↗

— Ken Burns

#choice #commercial #compromise #conscious #gain

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that. ↗

— David Byrne

#doing #extent #feel #happily #i

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. ↗

— David Byrne

#artists #business #business community #coming #community

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition. ↗

— David Byrne

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I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? ↗

— David Byrne

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I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. ↗

— David Byrne

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A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#away #band #breaking #certain #finds

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about. ↗

— Vanessa Carlton

#actually #almost #anomaly #artists #because

Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia. ↗

— Jose Carreras

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