Artist Advocacy Quotes

I've demanded respect for myself and my band and my peers, I've demanded full artistic control for my music, I advocate for artists and music education wherever I can. And I'm a nice guy.

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

You have laws to protect oil men, so why not artists?

Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists, I think you'll find them standing up for their music every chance they get.

Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

So it's a majorly important thing for young artists, as well as older artists like myself, to know that not only do we have the right to say no, but if we don't say no, we're gonna die.

Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

As many problems as there are with Hollywood, I feel so much more protected because if there's a serious issue, I have someone I can talk to. Where's that in the music industry? We need it.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

Musicians are, by and large, not the most politically savvy crew.

As songwriters, we are lucky to have ASCAP on our side, offering support and fighting for our rights.

Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.

I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.

Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

I can talk openly about my support for the artists on Communion because I'm not promoting myself.

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.