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“My first influences were superhero artists.”

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Author:Scott McCloud

“They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.”

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Author:Teena Marie

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.”

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Author:Eddie Redmayne

“Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.”

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Author:Jonny Lang

“On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.”

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Book:Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

Source: Leading Tones: Reflections on Music, Musicians, and the Music Industry

“We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.”

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Author:Ja Rule

“What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.”

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Author:Cheech Marin

“I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.”

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Author:Pablo Casals

“Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.”

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Author:Willem de Kooning

“First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.”

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Author:Francisco Goya

“And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?”

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Author:Felix Mendelssohn

“At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”

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Author:Alberto Giacometti

“The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.”

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Author:Jeff Koons

“I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.”

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Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”

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Author:Alfred Sisley

“When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did.”

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Author:Missy Elliot

“If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.”

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Author:J. E. H. MacDonald