Pastoral Resources

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot.

A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that to grow as artists.

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians.

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come.

I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way.