“I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.” PeopleThinkingLongImportantArtistListsBunchTeenager Author:Madeleine Peyroux
“I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.” WorldMindHandsKidsYoungArtistTeacherCollegeTrainingTheaterIncrediblesBrilliantBunchAround The WorldYoung Minds Author:Joe Manganiello
“There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.” PeopleKnowsArtistEgoExcuseDrivenBunchUpset Author:Rico Love
“We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.” PeopleDifferentArtistBunch Author:Bob Ross
“We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.” IfsWritingMatterArtistPrayingBunchMake SensePraying To GodBlink 182 Author:Tom DeLonge
“I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.” WayNeedsI CanBookIdeasWholeArtistStudyFiguresKeysIndustryFitOkayHollywoodEdgesI RealizedBunchSoftwarePublishingMusic IndustryDevelopersBook Publishing Author:Trip Hawkins
“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.” IfsThinkingWorldDoeJobsArtistActorsGoalHollywoodBunchFilmmakerDecentDisagreeHacksBad MoviesBest Artist Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt