#artists

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career. ↗

— Tori Amos

#assume #business #business people #career #charge

I do greatly admire Australian artists. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#artists #australian #greatly #i #i do

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside. ↗

— Rosanna Arquette

#artists #because #criticise #criticism #critics

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#hip #hip hop #hop #lot #music

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#company #contracts #did #directly #i

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#artists #experience #kind #literally #lot

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#american culture #appreciation #artists #athletes #community

I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me. ↗

— Gary Allan

#albums #anymore #artists #bothers #buys

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#certain #doing #easy #expected #get

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#artists #become #inhuman #men #want