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Some musicians feel they have to provide what their audiences expect. They lose the distinction between an artist and an entertainer. I am not an entertainer. Steven Wilson
Musicians Lose Distinction Entertainer Some Feel Between Am Audiences Provide Expect Artist
If you want to be an entertainer and just keep your audience happy, that's one thing. But to be an artist, I think, means ultimately primarily pleasing yourself, and in that respect, you constantly have this sense of confronting the expectations of your audience. Steven Wilson
You Respect Happy Yourself Sense Think Pleasing Entertainer One Thing Constantly Primarily Audience Ultimately Expectations Artist Just Want Confronting Means Your Keep Thing
I think that's part of the battle of defining yourself as an artist. You're constantly fighting the pressure from outside to be pigeonholed and deliver more of what people already liked. Steven Wilson
You Yourself Battle People Pressure Fighting Think Defining Constantly More Deliver Outside Part Liked Pigeonholed Artist
I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist. Stevie Jackson
Suits Glasses Guess Wear Indie Am Artist
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. Stevie Nicks
Parenting You Wife Focus Lover Changes Meetings Kids Writer Go Artist Want Your
When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me. Stockard Channing
Me Thought Would Inspiration Come Artist Just Younger
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. Sufjan Stevens
Art Myself Thought Collaborations Say About Only Never Concern Artist Tax Forms
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making. Sugar Ray Leonard
Try See Bruce Bruce Lee Like Beyond Sport Him Making Go Lee Artist Want Public Fundamentals
David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya's wildlife intimately, and it shows in the depth of his images. He has an artist's eye, which delivers beauty and transport in every picture. Susan Minot
Animals Picture Beauty Every Wildlife Intrigue Eye David He Knows Glorifying Without His Wonder Artist Which Them Depth Transport Shows Captures Images Kenya
I think possibly, as an artist, you're always treated with a certain respect but also with a certain sort of nervousness. Susanne Bier
You Respect Think Possibly Nervousness Also Sort Always Artist Certain Treated
Like a bathroom singer, I am a closet artist, but you need time to paint. Sushmita Sen
Time You Bathroom Like Singer Am Artist Closet Paint Need
I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist. Suzy Bogguss
Myself Seen Eclectic Sort Always Artist Funky
I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places. Swizz Beatz
Crazy Bronx Would Tag Weirdest Name Because Go South Off South Bronx Artist Wanted Anywhere Places Started
If I have a session with an artist who I've never worked with before, they don't have to meet my parents, you know? Unless they want to. Syd
You Parents Before Meet Unless Never Know Artist Want Worked Who Session
I think the audience is getting it right, you know what I mean? And that's kind of rare when the artist feels like their audience understand them. But I feel like people are understanding exactly what I'm going for. And that's awesome. Syd
You People Rare Understanding Awesome Think Kind Exactly Exactly What Feel Feels Like Know Understand Audience Artist Getting Going Mean Them Right
Everybody in Odd Future is their own artist - they have their own friends and their own ideas for things - so we all spent quite a lot of time separated. Syd
Future Time Own Everybody Spent Ideas Odd Lot Friends Artist Quite Quite A Lot Separated Things
Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either! Sylvia Plath
You World Entertaining Badly Feel Know Most Well Greatest Author Artist Going Either
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. T. S. Eliot
Personality Progress Self-Sacrifice Artist Extinction
Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff. Taika Waititi
People Every Run Stuff Person Artist Need
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do. Taiye Selasi
Work Truth Myself Relationship Knowledge Woman Experience Free Young Kicked Find Seeking Writers Had True Stuff Understand Came Been Begin Artist Order Romantic Young Woman Actually Need Needed
I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist. Taj Mahal
Music Myself People Other Solo Solo Artist See Composer Likes Artist Just Who Play Plays
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the country into the contemporary art world. So that's how I came up with the term 'superflat.' Takashi Murakami
Art Culture People World Try Country Important Own Background My Own Combine Term Contemporary Contemporary Art Felt How Making Came Up Very Art World Debut Artist
When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously. Takeshi Kitano
Me People Impossible Seriously Say Tell Take Idea Artist
I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too. Tali Lennox
Art Fashion World Before Sense Too Booming Berlin Would Week Feel Know Well Makes Been Effect Up Art World Model Artist Being Really Here
I get a lot of people that say, 'You know what, I heard that you're a painter, and I thought, 'Oh, another model who is saying she's an artist.' They assumed it was going to be a few splashes on a canvas. Tali Lennox
Saying You People Thought Few Assumed Say Know She Another Heard Lot Model Get Artist Going Oh Canvas Who Painter
But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected. Talib Kweli
Respected Becomes Artist Process Disrespectful
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