“I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.” ThinkingArtistStuffWonderInfluenceMusicalMusical Influence Author:Jonny Lang
“'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless ambient mix that shows Subb-an has more strings to his bow. We are always keen to push artists out of their comfort zone and really show the world what they are capable of.” WorldShowsArtistPiecesModernComfortCapableComplexesMusicalRhythmZoneStringsBowsComfort ZoneIntricateWeavingAmbientModern Love Author:Subb-an
“Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they get into the studio because they're under a different level of scrutiny. A lot of them can be insecure about it. My job is not simply to make musical determinations but sometimes to just keep people from flipping out during the process.” PeopleDifferentSometimesJobsArtistProcessLevelsGroupsDeterminationMusicalStudiosInsecurePsychiatristTherapistsScrutinyDynamicsDifferent LevelsMisgivingsFlipping Out Author:Todd Rundgren
“I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.” ArtWantedArtistInterestingMusicalPainterWorks Of ArtAssociates Author:Gunther Schuller
“I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly it was very clear that I wanted to be a musician of some sort.” AgeWantedArtistClearInformationMusicianAnd LoveMusicalKnowledge And Information Author:Gunther Schuller
“Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.” KnowsWritingWellsArtistReadingCreativitySuccessfulListeningDependsMusicianImportanceMusicalArtisticVisualsCompositionExposureVisual ArtVisual ArtistArtistic CreativityMusical CompositionSuccessful WritingExtensive Reading Author:Paul Laseau
“You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.” ThinkingWayNeedsArtistPassionAudienceFansResponseMusicalRageFuelRebellion Author:Corey Taylor
“I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.” MeanHas BeensArtArtistBlackPleaseMajorsMusicalIndianMuseumsChicagoTrustedHungManipulateNever TrustDubiousArtifactsWoman Artist Author:Alice Walker
“I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.” LongShowsJobsArtistAudienceMaterialsMusicalTouring Author:Jeff Dunham
“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.” HumansBodyAmericaBeautifulDesireArtistAnimalPowerfulAirPerformancesHorseDifficultyMusicalNarrativeFulfillmentLatinLatin AmericaSuspendedDebutUnderwaterHumans And Animals Author:Mark Doty