Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.
I don't look at my instrument as having one specific role; I was raised to go as far as you can. But Raphael Saadiq hated my bass. He told me to throw it away. And playing in Snoop's band, there was a time when my bass was more annoying to everyone than helpful. They would get on my case: 'Can you make your bass sound like more of a bass?'
Everybody's waiting on the downfall of artists.
Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile, It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal.
He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in... it sucks that people tear you down.
I don't get all the anger that is thrown at comedians.
Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.
I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.
Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'
The XCX really stands for 'kiss Charli kiss,' which is unbelievably crap.
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
I don't have a very positive attitude towards rappers.
I have so much pride and love for the songs of The Smiths. However, I must ask you, if you come across any Smiths CDs, don't buy them, because all the money goes to that wretched drummer.
I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.
There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.
Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.
If an artist is going to take money from the taxpayers I guess he's got to be prepared to have the taxpayers dissatisfied with the product.
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not.
In Germany, we often hear the absurd complaint that museums don't have the money to buy paintings. Of course, I'm not talking about me and my paintings. There are, after all, more popular painters in this country.
Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.
There's not a day that goes by that I don't get an email from someone who is angry with me and tells me they're not going to let their kid listen to Imagine Dragons anymore.
