#before

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#artist #before #came #cd #chicks

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough. ↗

— David Sylvian

#anticipate #approached #artists #ask #because

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it. ↗

— Ice T

#anybody #art #art form #back #because

I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#collecting #committing #did #i #larger

I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#before #genre #grew #head #i

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release. ↗

— James Taylor

#ahead #any #away #because #before

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#artist #attain #before #everything #good

Dig your well before you're thirsty. ↗

— Seth Godin

#dig #thirsty #well #you #your

Change before you're forced to change. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#change #forced #you

Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#before #city #ever #grown #had