2171 Artist Quotes for You to Enjoy

From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games. Gavin O'Connor

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There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there. Taylor Swift

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It's dope to be an artist and to have that wall of separation, but also I feel like social media is there for what it's there for. I have a group chat with about 40 fans who I communicate with on the regular. 6lack

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Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons. Ben Eine

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Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that predominantly matches the artist in my 30 years of doing this, it was me walking in and sitting there with no drums, no samples, no nothing, and making a beat on the spot. DJ Premier

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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people. Questlove

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Every artist knows the songs that come out naturally, almost effortlessly, are the songs that do the most. Mod Sun

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When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking. Malik Yoba

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I enjoy reading and thinking, and it's hard to make that space as an artist. Hilary Hahn

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Every artist has the song where they say, 'I wish I could have written a song as good as this,' but they don't feel like they've done it yet. It pushes you to evolve. Laura Jane Grace

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I want to be a great person, not just a great artist. Cody Simpson

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When my father was, you know, a very big artist in the 1970s and then later up through the '80s. And then I began playing guitar with him in the road in the late '80s until he retired in 1997. So I traveled the world with them for years, you know, and all around the world and got to meet some great people. John Carter Cash

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