Pastoral Resources

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.

As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important as the money, for some people.