Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It’s a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box. – Talib Kweli
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter. – Sufjan Stevens
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it’s a back-and-forth process. – Serj Tankian
An artist don’t make you bigger than life – being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life. – Timbaland
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was. – Ziggy Marley
I think swag is very important to rappers. It’s the overall appearance and style of an artist – these blue shorts and this blue hat and this $80,000 chain, this jewelry and all these tattoos, that’s swag. – Soulja Boy
You think, ‘You hired me because I’m a creative artist with a vision. Don’t try and knock it out of me.’ – Sam Taylor-Johnson
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two. – Sam Taylor-Wood
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
Some people can’t sing – like honestly – but they’re famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer. – Zara Larsson
I think it’s important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in. – Tracy Chapman
Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there’s going to be a multitude of sound coming out. – Steve Aoki
I’m on a mission to make people aware that I’m not a solo artist. I’m sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim Crouch. – Tim Crouch
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again. – Walter Gropius
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
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
As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with. – Stephanie Sigman
I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world’s No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist. – Simon Fuller
To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that’s the biggest honor as an artist. – Zac Brown
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
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist. – Sammy Hagar
Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists. – Willem de Kooning
If you’re a painter, you don’t go, ‘Abstract’s really selling, so that’s what I’m going to do.’ If you’re really truly an artist, you have to think what you’re meant to paint. – Trisha Yearwood
Developmental readings are actually the best part of being an actor for me. I once spent a month doing so many developmental readings at the Roundabout that we all joked that I was an ‘artist in residence’ there. But to me, it’s such a special time to be involved with a new play. – Sarah Steele
I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I’ll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I’ll use a real drummer. – Teena Marie
