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History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout.
Artist History Job Losers
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me

Jamaica Place Energies Different
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The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Diversity Grow Father
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Woman Inspired Totally Point
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I just tried to be an artist in my own metier.

Artist Just My Own Own
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Artist Everybody God Just
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When something happens in Africa, an artist will sing about it and stuff. We have all the records; we have everything. Free Mandela records and all that.

About Africa Artist Everything
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Child Remain Grow Artist
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Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Learn Artist Break Rule
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

Approach Artist Back Being
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Any Artifice Artist Believe
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We still have a lot of work to do as African artists to get more recognition in the U.K. and the U.S., but right now, definitely, we're getting the recognition. The thing is we have to earn it. Keep working. Stay working.

African Artists Definitely Earn
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It's crazy how a whole lot of African artists work. Big respect to everyone that does it, but I have not heard anything that really cuts across. We're trying to do that.

Across African Anything Artists
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I think even outside of being an artist, anyone with success should always put themselves in a position to help others.

Always Position Other Anyone
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.

Business Destiny Idea Status
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
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I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Answering Mail Anymore Letters
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Medium Matter Giving Art
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We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.

Universe Create Artist Poet
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The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Everything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. – But it takes away from the reason we do it.

Essence Same Formula Reason
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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Winners Ability Step Back
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Artificial Artist Comment Condition
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He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

Artist Art Hand Head
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A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

Writer Needs Artist Brush
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Actual Artist Consenting Dream
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Artist Hard Intellectual Says
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Artist Carries Composition Head
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When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

Artist Believe Dramatic Everything
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I always knew I was gonna be an artist. I was very confident in that.
Always Artist Confident Gonna
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You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.

Artist Audience Because Bored
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.

Artist Feel Full-Time Here
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Afraid Also Artist Certainly
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Artist Beauty Interpret Mission
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Artist Extinction Personality Progress
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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Artist Danger Door He
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

About Am Artist Atheist
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Am Artist Course Entirely
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I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.

Energy Felt Artist Album
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

Artist Comfort Comfort Zone Doing
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Artist Certainly Fellow Heart
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Artist Difficult Easiest Journalist
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When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.

When Picking Songs For
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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

Mother Encouraged Me To
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It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Artist Ask Away Being
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As an artist, you always want to never forget where you come from.

Always Artist Come Forget
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As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Entrepreneur Investor Artist Influencer
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As an artist, as a brand, as a rapper, as a musician, you know you got a window and a lot of people, even an athlete; they don't have no exit strategy. It's just living in the false reality that it's going to be like this forever.

Artist Brand Rapper Window
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why
Artist Creature Demons Wonder
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