Creative Entrepreneur Quotes

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

I want to be more than just a musician or an artist and I felt that I achieved that, with Forbes. I was ready to start a new chapter in my life.

The thing with making your art your business is: It's a business. You can't sit around waiting for the muse, especially when you run a show, and you're in production, and an outline is due, a script is due, and a reshoot is due. No. You look at the calendar, and you go, 'OK. I can write from 4 to 6.' So you write.

Brit Marling smartest girl I've ever met. Hands down. Brilliant. Her story? She had a graduate degree from a top tier school and turned down a job with some big company. She went to LA, said she was going to be an actress. She wasn't getting auditions, so she started writing her own films.

I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants.

I started out as an actor but now I act to fund my own productions. I've managed to separate my mindset.

I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality.

I think sometimes there are negative connotations for those who have a business mind as well as a creative side.

I think Dr Dre really evolved and really is a great role model for young people that have had to survive and thrive against all odds. He was able to turn his life around and create an empire and become a successful family person.

I'm a writer; I'm a producer. I've certainly spread myself over a lot of different careers.

I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.

I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I think that the stigmas against model-actresses - and even just, like, entertainer, celebrity chef, and musician - those kinds of walls have been broken down, and you can do multiple things. So while I can, I don't see why I would stop.

All I do all day is think of ideas and implement them. That's an industry, you know. I'm trying to make art on a commercial scale.

I'm not an artist: I'm a businesswoman. Well, maybe an artist/businesswoman.

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.

I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.