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I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over. ↗

— Wes Montgomery

#gone #got #i #into #like

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#also #am #aware #business #commercially

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#artists-life #creativity #decency #discouragement #encouragement

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#bone #both #clarity #down #gentleness

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#actually #allows #always #artist #because

What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#awareness #citizens #connected #days #encourage

Live every day as if they last. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#inspirational-attitude #life #attitude

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #consciousness #excited #external #nerves

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes. ↗

— Peter Munk

#business #get #into #personal #tastes

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#details #did #emptiness #eye #followed