If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.
No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits.
If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too.
Throughout history, ideas need patrons.
Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.
