“Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want my music to be. I'm not precious at all when it comes to producing music and I can bring that to an artist and let them expand their horizons.” IfsThinkingWantI CanFeelingsWould BeArtistEasySongwritingHorizonRestrictionProducing Music Author:John Congleton
“I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.” WantPersonsRealArtistHonestHonestyBeing HonestBeing RealReal Person Author:Miley Cyrus
“I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.” WorldWantAbleWantedArtistCompanyHollywoodProductionsGreat Artist Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.” WorldWantBelieveHumansIdeasArtistI BelieveHuman NatureBottom Author:M. C. Escher
“I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. Its not the diva speaking. Its the artist who knows how it has to be done.” KnowsWantNeedsLittlesDoneLightArtistKnow HowPerformancesAskingCostumes Author:Anna Netrebko
“great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.” WantWellsHardWantedArtistCoursesDecisionFourSolutionsScriptsCurrentsProfessionSomething NewWornUncertainCoinsGreat ArtGreat ArtistExhaustionEmilyUsage Author:Agnes de Mille
“America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.” WantSoulAmericaArtistHateUnited StatesMy Soul Author:Anais Nin
“Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.” PeopleIfsWorldWantStillsArtistAsksDirectorsHollywoodEnglandAskingAsk MeGermanyPolishTreasonHitchcock Author:Roman Polanski
“Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects.” PeopleWantFeelsSometimesArtistMy OwnPositionProjectsFeministRight Thing Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I've got such great people around me. They don't really care if they make me angry. A lot of teams, they're afraid to make the artist angry, because they don't want to get fired and all that stuff. My team's pretty good about letting me know when to get in line.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantCareArtistStuffLinesTeamAngryGreat PeopleMake Me Angry Author:Justin Bieber
“I'm not into screamo music, but I respect it. It's hard to do, to keep your voice and stuff like that. It's hard to do, so I respect the music. It's just not my favorite to listen to. That's all I want. I just want people to respect me as an artist.” PeopleWantHardArtistStuffVoiceMy FavoriteRespect Me Author:Justin Bieber
“I just want to be the biggest artist that I can be, and I want to make a difference. I feel like Michael (Jackson) made a difference with everything that he did. He was so charitable and just always on-point. I just want to be where he is, as an artist.” WantFeelsMadeI CanArtistDifferencesMaking A DifferenceCharitable Author:Justin Bieber
“That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.” WantSelfArtistEmotionPerspectiveAccountsBeing An ArtistSelf Indulgent Author:Jessica Origliasso
“When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it within me. I know what I know. I won't make up stuff. But if it's something I've been through, I'll share my experiences and tell them the truth.” IfsKnowsWantGivingI CanYoungArtistAsksStuffAnswersShareAsk MeYoung Artists Author:Michael Tait
“I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.” WorldWantKindFormArtistGirlActorsFunComedyCamerasHip HopHipsComedianHopsSlapParodyHip Hop Artist Author:Pauly Shore
“There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.” WantSuccessArtistIntegrityHarderArtisticNeverthelessTombsArtistic Integrity Author:Caitlin Thomas
“The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.” IfsWayWantArtistMusicTearsLaughterSpiteTemperamentObligedConductorDespots Author:Nadia Boulanger
“I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.” WorldWayWantArtistCultureFunEnjoyImpactPopsGood TimesHaving A Good TimeSequins Author:Lady Gaga
“I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.” ThinkingWantArtistCultureContemporaryNarrative Author:Rachel Cusk
“I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.” WantArtLawArtistSuccessfulStreetsPerformancesAbusePoliceArtisticPerformersSpheresPolice BrutalityBrutalityBeggingConfrontingStreet ArtStreet Performers Author:Kalan Sherrard
“Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasing/surprising/exciting solution.” ThinkingWayWantWritingTryingTwoBookProblemArtistThreeStepsFindingsSolutionsExcitingSolveOne WaySurprisingPuzzlesConstraints Author:Peter Turchi
“There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.” IfsThinkingMenWantRealityArtistSexSubjectsChangedResearchReflectionCoreSeconds Author:Russell Simmons
“I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.” WantMeanWholeArtistActorsWhole Life Author:Ansel Elgort
“I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.” PeopleWantFeelsCountryJobsArtistStuffLike YouDemandEarsRadioButtonsYoutubeStreamingCountry Artist Author:Garth Brooks
“I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].” WantDoneArtistCertainCausesCollaborationNo PointCaliber Author:Mariah Carey