In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.
I have mixed feelings about Napster. I like what it can do for an unsigned band. It can help them sell 10,000 records. But for an established artist, there's already so much piracy around. They need to regulate it.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.
If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether it be the 'Mona Lisa' or 'Venus Rising.'
Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.
People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.
Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed.
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
As an artist, my wheelhouse is 19th-century literature. I want to write realist novels in a Victorian sense, and the writers I admire in that style tend to do omniscient narration.
I have no regrets, though I was the first artist to stylize the national anthem, and I got a lot of protests for it. I have no regrets. America has been good to me. I'm glad that I'm here.
Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.
The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
I am probably the oldest new artist Sony has ever signed.
It wasn't supposed to work - being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. That's what made it so much sweeter when we hit No. 1.
