Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Johnson

A.S. Presents wants all genres of music. The tour is different because the artists are all underground. Their lyrics actually mean something.

All of us at the symphony have a great relationship with Nicola's. It's a fabulous Italian restaurant and a great date place for beforehand. We always take all of our guest artists there for an after-concert dinner. And of course there are many downtown places like Bella, Palomino or Shanghai Mama's. If you want something very simple there is Washington Platform - this is actually a big CSO musician lunch place.

Jonathan Demme

All my life I have been in love with film and music, and this feels like the best opportunity I have ever had to work with a fusion of the two artistic mediums,

Accessibility to artistic experiences is key, particularly for our young people, if we hope to build a creative, innovative, internationally competitive society ready to face the world, ... We are pleased to be a major partner of this important international gathering of individuals who all share a great thirst and an enormous passion for the arts and young people.

It's kind of an embarrassment of riches there. This year, we asked like 15 people, and got 14 ... For the artists attending, it's very valuable to listen to these established artists talk about their careers.

It's kind of a full rock sound based in soul with a little blues. We take a lot of traditional stuff from artists such as Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie and give it a bit of an edge. Most of our music is original, but we base it in stuff like that.

It's just a fun event because us starving artists just really enjoy appreciation.

It seems to be a prudent thing to do to look at alternatives if in fact the ground zero site is not going to work out, ... The Drawing Center, like any cultural institution, stands for artistic freedom.

A lot of gospel artists knew who he was. If he wasn't at home relaxing, he was playing his bass.

Boris Vallejo

A lot of portrait artists specialize in men, women or children,

A lot of people just stumble in and they're not aware of what they're looking at. When they find out, they're kind of surprised and say, 'Wow, this is really good.' The fact of the matter is a good portion of these artists went to art school. They're trained and it shows. There may an expectation that work won't be as good as your average gallery show because of the population producing it, but I think people are generally surprised and impressed.

James Franco

A lot of things can be read into it, but essentially it's about the desire to be an artist and what a struggle that is. It's about everything. You've got issues of being a man, finding meaning and the struggle to express oneself. The sad thing is that sometimes someone doesn't really have the talent or the voice to do that.

A lot of the time it's just that person-to-person connection between the artists that ends up being the most valuable thing that can happen for them.

This exhibition has been many years in the making and we are pleased to present this beautiful and stimulating body of work to a broad national audience. Looking at all of the photographs in the exhibition, I am still struck by the diversity of artistic expressions to the form, atmosphere and symbolism of the garden.

This is a magnificent initiative because it is very important to build and enlarge the links between Americans and Europeans, ... Through cultural and artistic links, people can discover one another's attractions.

It is to me, obvious in the memo that I wrote to Fred Fielding that it was about whether or not it's good to have more lawyers. Whether they were from homemakers, from plumbers, from artists or truck drivers had nothing to do with it,

John Ziegler

It's not intended to be a tabloid format or nit-picky. Artists are encouraged to do new material. We're trying to support things in the community. You don't do that by being negative or belittling artists.

Marjane Satrapi

It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out and watch movies. Any kind of artistic expression interests me; it goes from literature to music to sculpture, painting; whatever is extremely inspiring for me becomes a reference also for me.

For me, James has become much more than an artist doing a piece. He's the kind of guy who when you hire him to do an artistic piece like that wall system, you do it together, but then he's hanging around the office, so you ask his opinion on everything.

David Elliott

It's time to put out an All Points Bulletin on Sylvester Stallone. Not for artistic crimes but for so grossly abusing his license to pander.

Chris Knight

It's not easy to retain an artistic passion under those conditions.

This pattern is not merely about new applications. It's about a revolution in how we create, share and refine anything that can be digitally encoded -- be it news and information, artistic forms, scientific breakthroughs, personal communications, economic transactions, and, yes, even software. This is not Web 2.0. It's World 2.0.

Michael Williams

There was a time when black artists couldn't get signed to a major label.

There will be 125 lots, featuring 44 contemporary artists - the post independence generation who I believe have created their own sensibilities with an eye on international trends.

Cassandra Peterson

There's 20 really cutting-edge, cool artists on there, so I was so thrilled to be a part of it, ... And it's a really fun song.

This is what happens when you have a live show, these things happen. We didn't run full sets of some artists because we would have had to lose other artists altogether. We ran only eight hours, and there were 40 to 50 hours of performances. We wanted to be equitable.

It's about trying to revive our community, its artists and our museum. Like so many other museums, residences and businesses around here, we suffered some damage from the storm.

It's a great opportunity to own a piece of artwork from a living artist and to start a collection.

It really is a remarkable collection. Because Harvard began collecting so early, on so many levels, it can trace the full range of Degas' artistic interests in a way that few other museums can match.

It's a little bigger this year. I think the teachers are getting more involved and are encouraging their artistic students. So that's why they're here.

This is truly a remarkable evening where artistic achievements are honored, talents are recognized and future aspirations are encouraged.

They're being profiled, ... Over and over, our artists are targets only to be later found not guilty. Like (Sean) 'Puffy' (Combs).

David Ross

They realized that those artists still had strong fan bases and recognition, and they used those assets to their advantage.