#artists

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough. ↗

— David Sylvian

#anticipate #approached #artists #ask #because

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

#attracted #creative #eventually #going #me

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#going #metronome #society

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me. ↗

— John Legend

#artists #i #i always #me #myself

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are! ↗

— Johnny Ramone

#artists #beatles #been #elvis #favorite

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers. ↗

— China Chow

#artists #careers #contemporary #contemporary art #doing

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #buy #consistently #drop #fans

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#ahead #always #artists #back #every

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time. ↗

— Henry Miller

#artists #freedom #imagination #art

Artists are those who can evade the verbose. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#artists #creativity #art