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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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