“ I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working. Estelle Singer-Songwriter
“ As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child Charles E. Burchfield Painter
“ To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy. John Burroughs Essayist
“ I sometimes look at the careers of other... I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite. Mike Royer
“ A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn’t really respected. The sentiment was emcees only did that if they couldn’t write. The coming off the top of the head rhymer had a built-in excuse to not be critiqued as hard Kool Moe Dee Rapper