Artist Quotes

Every artist was first an amateur.

I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what’s happening, it’s so much easier for us to write a song that’s specific to them.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

I know I’m not the kind of person who’s gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock ‘n’ roll artists. They just play their hits and that’s it. That doesn’t appeal to me.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments