Pastoral Resources

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

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.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.