#tis

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music. ↗

— Bjork

#artist #chat #colors #comes #down

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience. ↗

— Marc Davis

#actor #artist #body #drawing #experience

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#bit #colonel #father #high #i

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. ↗

— Robert Frost

#alcoholism #disease #egotism #executives #popularly

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#attack #defending #deliberate #devote #enough

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think. ↗

— Clint Black

#boundaries #certainly #country #country radio #door

I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left. ↗

— Clint Black

#artist #autographs #could #day #every

I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good. ↗

— Frank Black

#always #being #cohen #end #good

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job. ↗

— Frank Black

#day #does #gets #got #i

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#enforced #immediate #lessons #life #life is a