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There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

People Love Artistic Nothing
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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 am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing s

Heat Leaders Grain Artist
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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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It is hard to separate the art from the artist.

Hard Separate Art Artist
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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

Software Great Combination Artistry
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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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When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist.

Artist Fall Work Die
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True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Artists Because Lonely Prophetic
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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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Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

Artists Clothes Definitely Musicians
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

Age Art Artists Course
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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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Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Copy Good Artist Bad
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Artist Another God Only
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We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Camp Artist World Art
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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Talk Form Structure Cheap
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Earth Spider Scrap Paper
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

About Art Because Better
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In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

About Art Better Certain
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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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It's not like a boss and artist relationship; it's like a big brother to a younger brother relationship, and he's a great guy. So big shout-out to Akon and the Konvict Muzik crowd.

Artist Big Big Brother Boss
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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 would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

Age Artists Being Guys
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The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

Artists Back Just Love
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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Actually Artists Controversy Deal
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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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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Community Wounded People Broken
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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

People Phosphorized Untouched Instead
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Artist Failure Fewer Gesture
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Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
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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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I'm not artistic nor am I all that creative.

Artistic Creative Not THat
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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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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Artist Bad BadManners Humanity
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The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we’ve got to risk it too.

Great Artist Risk Failure
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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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Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

Artistic Bears Concrete Description
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