Famous Quotes & Sayings

What's extraordinary about all of these artists is the talent and diversity they bring as performers and musical stylists, ... This is destined to be an incredible night of entertainment.

What is exciting about them is that not only can people enjoy the art, but they can so easily contact the artists for more information.

This year we welcomed artists from Hollywood to Hong Kong and everywhere in between.

This year, we decided to look back and to honor and showcase some of the artists who came up during that time and team them with the rising stars that people always love to see at the festival.

This year the Q awards highlighted two things; that 2005 has been a vintage year for music in the UK and that the power of the music and artists that Q has always championed remains undimmed.

Ellen Willis

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

Alex Grey

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

Blake Shelton

The thing that got me started on Twitter was just basically pressure from management and the record company saying, 'Hey, this is what all the other artists are doing. You need to be doing it also.' I didn't really have a clue what is was.

Billy Porter

I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.

When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.

We work with the school police a lot when it comes to graffiti, because most of the graffiti artists are juveniles. They keep an eye in the schools, look at the writing on the notebooks ... and they get a feel for who might be doing these.

We have about 45 artists in the show this year. They usually each show two pieces.

We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists.

This year, more of the artists are combining two or three processes to make one straight print. There are a lot of layers in this year's competition.

Deborah Cox

Whatever you feel is going to be truthful and maybe some artists don't feel like their songs are, have the same impact when they're remixed.

I believe that a Hispanic country star is out there, and that this will happen soon. I also believe that when it does, it will be a woman because female artists in general just seem to make that leap from 'wannabe' to 'star' with more ease.

Faye Dunaway

He became one of the greatest artists that will ever be. Ever, ever.

People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'

Normally, Collectables will reissue or repackage past projects of well-known artists in every style of music. However, occasionally they will discover a new artist and solicit them for a record deal. That's what happened to us.

Comparisons of different artists are a good way to get people to see the artists in a new way. It's a jolt. There's a lot of curiosity about these objects (from Allen's collection). Not many people have seen them.

Detroit was just like a New York or San Francisco as far as having artists and the music culture, except it was more of a reflection of the Midwest and the car culture: a little hard-edged.

Tom Anderson

depends more on the artists we can find...I'm talking to about four bands right now.

Edith Wharton

. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Any company getting into this space needs to devote resources to categorize the artists they are representing.

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Sony's recent digital rights management (DRM) fiasco highlighted the tightrope content producers employing DRM technologies are currently walking. Authors, artists and publishers now have the technological tools to better protect their digital creations but if they want consumers to pay for their digital work, they must find the right balance between copyright protection and customer expectations.

Sometimes you have a concept first, and then you try to find artists that echo the idea you have.

Rumors travel fast in Cuba. Artists know I'm there before I get there. It's not hard to find the artists but it is hard to see everything.

Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward.

Right now, we all have decent jobs. We're not, like, struggling artists trying to scrape by.

These con artists are getting more bold each time.

Alan Rosenberg

The sharp increase of product placement in film and television too often takes place without any compensation to the very performers that are expected to push those products -- and more often is done without any consultation with those performers and their representatives. It is time for producers to work with artists on this issue, and the best way to do that is to establish a cooperative code of conduct that will protect the artist, the viewing public and advertiser-supported, free television.

The size of the houses makes them perfect for use as studios for artists and photographers and other art-oriented people.