“In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.” IfsArtistChildhoodHavensAmountTwentiesTraumaYour ChildrenComplexity Author:Jeremy Sisto
“Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.” YearsFactsArtistFallExperienceTwentiesErrorsCraftsBoastYears Of Experience Author:Trevanian
“If the average jazz artist uses his head and at the outset of his career realizes he won't play as well at fifty as he does at twenty-five, he won't be in a line-up outside the Salvation Army when he's fifty.” IfsWellsDoePlayUseArtistRealizingLinesCareersFiveArmyTwentiesSalvationAgingJazzAverageFiftyTwenty FiveSalvation Army Author:Oscar Peterson
“My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.” FeelsArtistLevelsCreativityFansHigherCreatingTwentiesTwenty OneHigher Level Author:Talib Kweli
“McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.” YearsBigsAbleArtistSongKingsOffersSucceedTwentiesIntelligentHip HopNineHipsSubstanceThirtyHopsTeenageMcdonaldsMacsExtendingMtvRansomHip Hop ArtistTeenage LifeBig Mac Author:Chuck D
“I am lucky in that my children are grown, my youngest is twenty-seven. I didn't have the conflict between artist and mother while they were young because I really focused in, very much, on the mothering aspect.” ChildrenYoungMotherArtistLuckyConflictAspectTwentiesSevenFocusedMy ChildrenMothering Author:Pegi Young
“If you look at the Gulf War or new military technologies, they are moving towards cyberwars. Most video-technologies and technologies of simulation have been used for war. For example, video was created after the Second World War in order to radio-control planes and aircraft carriers. Thus video came with the war. It took twenty years before it became a means of expression for artists.” IfsWorldYearsLooksMeanHas BeensWarMovingUsedArtistOrderTechnologyMilitaryExampleExpressionTwentiesRadioVideoPlanesWar Of The WorldsWorld War ISecond World WarAircraftSimulationCarrierGulf WarAircraft Carriers Author:Paul Virilio
“For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone.” ThinkingKnowsWellsPlayArtistWorryFiveLike YouThousandMusicianTwentiesClubsVideoLike MeFollowersTwenty FiveVenuesReally Like You Author:Joe Louis Walker
“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
“What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this expectation of a political corrective that demands that the artist fixes the ills of the world.” WorldFirstsWellsYoungPoliticalArtistBlackInterestingCenturyDemandExpectationsTwentiesTwentieth Century Author:Kehinde Wiley
“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.” IfsLittlesProblemLastsArtistHoursHeardMinutesPoetReaderScientistTwentiesSuicideCommitBetter OffExhilarationCommitting SuicideRe Entry Book:Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book