Quotes About Supporting Artists

#1. So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

Kool Keith

#2. I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.

Amanda Palmer

#3. Take no pride in choice alone!" he cried. "It is what you choose that matters!

Ellen Gunderson Traylor

#4. The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game...

Egon Friedell

#5. I used to teach writing in a federal prison, and for my students' benefit, I would liken the narrative use of this highly personal point of view to a boxer's getting in close to his opponent.

Norman Lock

#6. Today, the PC is often still considered just a tool, but together we need to make it a lot more than that. We need to make it a path to experiences.

Jim Allchin

#7. If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.

Erwin McManus

#8. Our healthy shame is essential as the foundation of our spirituality. By reminding us of our essential limitations, our healthy shame lets us know that we are not God. Our healthy shame points us in the direction of some larger meaning. Our healthy shame is the psychological ground of our humility.

John Bradshaw

#9. The things you get excited for the fastest are the things that get boring the fastest. Anything that ever meant a damn took a while.

Meredith Gran

#10. Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield

#11. Words can be deceitful, but pantomime necessarily is simple, clear and direct

Marcel Marceau

#12. Pain can give you sight or make you blind.

Francesca Lia Block

#13. You'll have more visions and thoughts to prepare you. Your heart's desire shows you the future. We put Angels in the sky to show you that we are in your life, and you are on path.

Paul Stefaniak

#14. There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.

Chris Abani

#15. If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.

Christopher Pearse Cranch

#16. Accept and allow. This is the key to living a life full of Love.

Chris Johnson

#17. Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

Robert Smithson

#18. History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Jon Meacham

#19. People actually like supporting the artists whose work they like. It makes them feel happy. You don't have to force them. And if you force them, they don't feel as good.

Cory Doctorow