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The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves. Talib Kweli
Responsibility To Be Honest Artist Themselves Honest
The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different. Talib Kweli
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As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it. Talib Kweli
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street. Talib Kweli
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET. Talib Kweli
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist. Talib Kweli
Other Out More Tour Hip-Hop Than Any Artist Whether Album
It's a constant quest to push the bar and work in films that allow me to prove what I can do as an artist. Tamannaah
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I'm really loving Billie Eilish's 'idontwannabeyouanymore.' Her dreamy vocals offer such a lovely moment of escape, and there's a sophistication to the lyrics that are so surprising coming from a teen artist. Tan France
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It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second. Tanya Fischer
Good Me Valuable Local Kinds Outlets Good Story Had Part Artist Story Explore Actor Second Filmmaker Milwaukee
When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from. Tanya Saracho
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I am not a genre-based artist. Tash Sultana
Am Artist
You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from. Tatiana Maslany
Work Good You Think Seconds Easy Good Place Struggling Hot Were Get Artist Place Again Two
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music. Tavi Gevinson
Music Hate Once Collaborators Range Table Blackness Joined Put Feel New Period Forces Discoveries Antidote Celebration Louisiana Artist Move After Many Expression Seat Her Right Things Album
I've always been an elite artist. Tech N9ne
Always Been Artist Elite
They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control. Teena Marie
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Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul. Teena Marie
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Breughel is an example of an artist - I mean, this is true about artists and painters in general, but he is a specific example of an artist whose work contains more than you think it does at first glance. Whose work rewards, sustains attention and looking. Teju Cole
Work You Example First Looking Think About General More Glance He True Attention Contains Does Than Artist Artists Rewards Sustains Mean Painters Whose Specific
Usually, the extras have a different mentality. I had the mentality of an artist, because I was a 'ballet-rina.' But most extras are out to make a fast buck for nothing. They're 'atmosphere.' Teri Garr
Nothing Out Atmosphere Mentality Buck Had Most Make Because Artist Different Fast
Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression. Terrence Howard
Challenge Every New Artist Form Themselves Grow Expression
I think I've grown a lot in the last few years, and I needed to express myself as an artist on this. It wasn't necessarily about going in and making an album chocked full of hit singles... there were a lot of things I did out of the joy and the want to do it. Terri Clark
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Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller. Terri Windling
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I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist. Terri Windling
Academic Artist
I kind of rode this weird line between athlete and artist. It was a little different because most of the athletes were total jocks, and most of the artists dressed in black and were kind of considered a little on the fringe. But I hung out with both crowds in my high school. Terry Crews
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Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist. Terry Gross
Work You Dimension About Something Take New Know Artist
Over the course of my career, I have come to accept that some of my more provocative work courts controversy, and as an artist, I value the discourse that arises from this. I can only hope for this discourse to be informed by fact, so that whether you love my work or hate it, you give it, and me, the benefit of the truth. Terry Richardson
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Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years. Terry Teachout
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