Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them at conventions or a store signing or something. "Hey, we should do something together. "
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task
The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.
For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.
It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.
No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites. . . As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.
I see so many activists. . . who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need
We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.
There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
Music being “good or bad” is a flawed idea. Artists make what they want to make and we either connect with it or we don't. Just because we relate to some songs more than others doesn't make the others less valid, we just don't understand them. In fact, we aren't meant to, and that's all right.
All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.