Music Artist Quotes

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.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

The internet has really messed everyone up. It has its ups and downs, but for a music artist it's a killer.

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.

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.

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

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.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Where words fail, music speaks.