2168 Artist Quotes for You to Enjoy

I originally just wanted to be an artist. Daniel Clowes

Artist Just Wanted Originally

For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I was really thinking about how I could get all the music and do it in a legal way while at the same time compensating the artist. Daniel Ek

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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it. Daniel Ek

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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition. Daniel Mallory Ortberg

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I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense. Dara Horn

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I wish I started out as a solo artist. Darlene Love

Wish Out Solo Solo Artist Artist Started

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for. Daryl Hall

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I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you. Daryl Hall

The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is that it's not very glamourous, and my problems are no different from anybody else's. Dave Gahan

One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can. Dave Gibbons

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I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy. Daveed Diggs

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I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time. Daveed Diggs

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I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.' David Bailey

Love Bit Term Like Sure Artist Really Means

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute. David Bowie

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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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We've always used that as a goal - the record that literally every single track on it could be a hit. A record that breaks doors down, that opens up new opportunities to us, that helps you achieve true immortality as an artist. David Draiman

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An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting. David Ebershoff

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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ. David Guetta

I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!' David Guetta

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block. David Guterson

Paralyzed Writer Became Block Artist

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