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My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show. -- Chanel West Coast
Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing. -- Jason Aldean
I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life. -- Chris Colfer
When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste. -- ASAP Rocky
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. -- Abraham Maslow
I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art. -- Grace Slick
I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist. -- DMX
You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make. -- Wale
As for today's music, Nicki Minaj is killing it. She's an amazing artist. -- Neon Hitch
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life. -- Pablo Casals
I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though. -- Pharrell Williams
To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist. -- DJ Shadow
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything. -- Eddie Murphy
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Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because it's scary. -- Tyler Farr
Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary. -- Tyler Farr
I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music. -- Kanye West
Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music. -- David Ruffin
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism. -- Yanni
I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. -- Roger Daltrey
With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist. -- Bonnie Raitt
My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music. -- Chance The Rapper
I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything. -- Lana Del Rey
There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist. -- Tinashe
You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial. -- Jack White
Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out. -- Classified
I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature. -- Justin Bieber
Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful. -- Jenni Rivera
A musician's or artist's responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth, -- Tom Morello
Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home. -- Anthony Hamilton
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music. -- Rafal Blechacz
I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist. -- Melanie Fiona
When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text. -- Blixa Bargeld
I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period. -- Ne-Yo
Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left. -- Itzhak Perlman
Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next. -- Wendy Starland
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint. -- Chuck Berry
I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in. -- Tracy Chapman
I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist. -- Kiki Smith
I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist. -- Bobby Sherman
If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world. -- Kanye West
Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration. -- DJ Khaled
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs. -- Kara DioGuardi
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. -- Abraham Maslow
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music. -- Maira Kalman
I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top. -- Chely Wright
It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react. -- Alessia Cara
Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great! -- PJ Harvey
The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security. -- Seth Godin
I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things. -- Mark Salling
When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea. -- St. Lucia
I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things. -- Mark Salling
I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience." -- Tom DeLonge
I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience. -- Tom DeLonge
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process. -- Serj Tankian
As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music. -- Ziggy Marley
I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music. -- Rashida Jones
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime -- Faith Hill
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist. -- Jewel
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists. -- John Oates
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business. -- Ray Stevens
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours. -- Ed Sheeran
When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural. -- Jeff Feuerzeig
Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character. -- Doseone
There's definitely something broken in the music industry clearly. Partly from downloading and partly the obstacles for discovery and listener choice and artist distribution are gone. -- Doug Walters
I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to show the world that. -- Tony Sunshine
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around. -- G-Eazy
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it. -- Sean Paul
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio. -- Kelis
I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study. -- lecrae
Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though. -- Brett Dennen
Especially as an artist who has been signed to one of the majors throughout my last ten years, you don't always get to write your own music. -- Kreesha Turner
Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me. -- Lizzo
I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better as an artist for them. -- Kid Ink
I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it. -- Jimmy Cliff
I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music... I think they're very intertwined. -- Lady Gaga
The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music. -- Camille Saint-Saens
I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album. -- Bonnie McKee
As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job. -- Black Francis
So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot. -- Audie Cornish
My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist. -- Ziggy Marley
I don't mind putting my heart out there for the audience, and for the country music fans... to be vulnerable with them... that's my job as an artist. -- Tyler Farr
As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job. -- Black Francis
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist. -- Merry Clayton
When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate. -- Valerie June
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist. -- Merry Clayton
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that. -- Kelsea Ballerini
I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music. -- Brooke Fraser
You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music. -- Lance Reddick
Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer. -- Jon Secada

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