“There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.” WayArtistWrittenHappeningsPaidContractsStreaming Author:Sean Parker
“In this context of achievement-and-death, artist who make Happenings are living out the purest melodrama. Their activity embodies the myth of nonsuccess, for Happenings cannot be sold and taken home; they can only be supported.” HomeArtistTakenActivityAchievementHappeningsMythMelodrama Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
“I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.” PeopleWorldLongIdeasEndsShowsAmericaArtistChallengesOpinionOne DayLong TimeHappeningsDevilDown AndBlueBlameDareVideoBotherEnd Of The WorldHollowControversialAtrocities Author:Marilyn Manson
“Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works.” KnowsFeelsKindArtistCan DoHappeningsHorribleJudgedYou Can Do ItHorrible Experience Author:Kelly Reilly
“The idea of selling is a projection that people create about people that is more of a reflection of who they are than what is actually happening in front of them with the artist.” PeopleIdeasArtistFrontsHappeningsReflectionSellingProjection Author:Mark Ruffalo
“The reason for backing tracks is to not veer off too far from the record and have what the fans actually want to hear. Artists use backing tracks just so they can stay close to the record and what the consumer heard for the first time. It's not to be confused with lip synching or anything like that cos that's not happening at all.” WantFirstsReasonUseArtistRecordsHeardFansHappeningsFirst TimeLipsTrackConsumersConfused Author:Chris Johnson
“I've always thought, it's the artist that write the songs and make the records. And it's our responsibility to set the tone for what's happening in the industry. And I take that seriously.” WritingArtistSongResponsibilityRecordsIndustryHappeningsTone Author:Eric Church
“I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really engage with the world around me? These are questions that artists and scientists both ask.” ThinkingWorldArtArtistAsksHappeningsScientistFunctionCuriosityArt And Science Author:Amy Hardie
“If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.” IfsTryingMovingArtistChoicesCareersFitHappeningsCareers Choices Author:Nikka Costa
“Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.” ImportantArtistVoiceHappeningsTraditionEngaged Author:Sinead O'Connor
“I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.” ThinkingAbleArtistStepsMastersHappeningsI RealizedCrafts Author:Kalup Linzy
“I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.” WritingMightArtistSongLinesShareHappeningsGuitarTherapyPianoVisualsWriting SongsVisual ArtSketchingVisual Artist Author:Erykah Badu
“I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.” TryingDifferentFactsArtistSimpleLevelsFansHappeningsHip HopHipsHopsDifferent ThingsSincereMainstreamTrying Different ThingsDissing Author:Talib Kweli
“If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.” IfsPoliticalMotherArtistLevelsTvsHappeningsProgramWingsDebateMainstreamFrighteningRight WingBiasedPolitical Debates Author:Thom Yorke
“There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.” SometimesArtistLinesStrangeHappeningsGood ThingsBad ThingsClueBeing An Artist Author:David Bowie
“Venues are all the same, all feel the same, these generic blank spaces. I like artists like Lightning Bolt-bands that go in and kind of change things every time, play on the floor, set up in the middle of the room. They go in and they reinvent the space every time, which I feel is like the kind of thing that should just be happening.” FeelsShouldKindPlayArtistSpaceRoomsMiddleBandHappeningsLightningBlankBoltsVenuesGenericLightning BoltsBlank Space Author:Will Oldham
“I have an artist background and I got into the field because I heard things in my own head that weren't happening and I wanted to have the control. So I learned to record and mix and do all those things. I found it as a means to an end, and I was fascinated by sound and creating sound. I very quickly became addicted to understanding everything there was to know.” KnowsMeanEndsWantedArtistFoundUnderstandingSoundMy OwnRecordsHeardFieldsCreatingHappeningsBackgroundsFascinatedMeans To An EndUnderstanding Everything Author:Emily Lazar
“When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.” MomentsInspirationUsedArtistTakenHugeHappeningsPopsBoredFormulasPop Art Author:Katy B
“Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.” IfsWantMayMatterArtistHappeningsInstruments Author:Van Morrison
“There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there. It's all changing and happening and they're able to maybe not play their movies in theaters but get them on the internet. This is the new wave, the new world.” WorldDifferentPlayStoriesAbleYoungArtistViewsDyingInternetHappeningsTheaterWavePoint Of ViewFilmmakerNew WorldDifferent Points Of ViewYoung Artists Author:Alex Stapleton
“Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.” PeopleKnowsWantedArtistFashionNewsHappeningsWesternExtraordinaryEastChocolateCandyBerlinEast Berlin Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.” FeelingsArtistHappeningsStatementsMessiness Author:Morgan Parker
“I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.” WorldFeelsTryingLooksHelpingShowsFeelingsMovingArtistSongLanguageSoundBlackEnvironmentParticularTvsHappeningsSkinsTwentiesSmellStatementsTv ShowsAmerican WomanMessiness Author:Morgan Parker
“Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.” ArtistHappeningsScientistCome UpRespondingMilieu Author:Adam Frank
“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work; especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.” IfsShouldIdeasFilmArtistTurnsSidesHappenedCrazyIndustryHappeningsShould HaveStudiosGood IdeasMusic IndustryBad Ideas Author:David Lynch
“'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.” WorldArtMomentsArtistStageHappeningsMachinesPerformancesPunkCagesScarceTransportArt WorldCombiningEdgyDo It YourselfEthosCrumblingTime MachinePerformance Art Author:Jerry Saltz
“Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.” PeopleMatterRealityArtistMiddleHappeningsPicksNo Matter WhatCaughtPensTranslatePaintbrushCaught In The Middle Author:Anna Deavere Smith