Pastoral Resources

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

In general, I don't feel artists should need producers.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

The best artists are gone now.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.

The more far-out artists, the better.

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.