Gallant quote: "People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'"

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writer...
PADDY CHAYEFSKY

It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R...
JANELLE MONAE

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although...
TRACY CHAPMAN

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out t...
TYGA

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
JOHN WAYNE

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't kn...
ANDERSON COOPER

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't bee...
MARVIN SAPP

I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do...
TREY SONGZ

Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I do...
GAD ELMALEH

I don't like to talk about myself that much.
GENE HACKMAN

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone o...
LAURA LINNEY

I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that...
BRYSON TILLER

I don't really talk too much about my personal life, but I'm happy.
BRYAN GREENBERG

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior. Whether that's the truth or not, I'm defin...
JAMIE FOXX

I don't think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so...
MISSY ELLIOTT

Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don'...
LINCOLN CHAFEE

Artists talk in 'art speak.'
DAMIAN LOEB

Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry ...
BAT FOR LASHES

When people start yammering about artistic responsibility, artists become wary. The subtext of such ...
STEVE ERICKSON

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indi...
MINDY KALING

R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from t...
BABYFACE

We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a na...
DIANE ACKERMAN

I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly yo...
MATT DILLON

I don't like to talk about myself.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer secu...
DAN FARMER

When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how ...
INDRA NOOYI

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus...
CAT POWER

I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, '...
MINDY KALING

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk abo...
JANE ASHER

A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people ...
TIG NOTARO

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too mu...
MICHAEL CAINE

When people ask me about what I learned from martial arts, I don't talk about favorite punches o...
JONATHAN MABERRY

I don't like to pay lip service. I don't frankly like to talk about stuff.
BRUCE RAUNER

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about musi...
MALIK BENDJELLOUL

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, the...
JUDY COLLINS

I don't like to talk about myself. I like to talk about stuff that's happening, stuff that&#...
FRED WILSON

Don't hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it.
GBENGA AKINNAGBE

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci ...
ROY AYERS

Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
CANDIS CAYNE

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have a...
TREVOR RABIN

I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad ...
ALESSIA CARA

A lot of new artists, especially girl artists, feel pressure to be so 'media perfect' and &#...
MAREN MORRIS

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
WILSON MIZNER

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER

People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. ...
ANDIE MACDOWELL

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I don't really have guilty pleasures. I like what I like, and I don't worry too much about w...
ANN LECKIE

There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic...
DAVID GUETTA

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people...
DAN HARMON

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family ...
OZZY OSBOURNE

I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.
IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM

The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make ...
WARWICK DAVIS

I like upbeat songs, and I listen to a lot of Linkin Park and Green Day. I also like hip hop and R&a...
LEXI THOMPSON

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ...
TOM CRUISE

Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or ca...
KELIS

Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
ANISH KAPOOR

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rai...
THE WEEKND

I have an urge to communicate. I think I'm a change from what it would be like dating a normal g...
DRAKE

The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk abou...
VIJAY SINGH

I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don&#...
BRAD PAISLEY

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to ove...
CHUCK EDDY

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

What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: ...
COURTNEY BARNETT

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to b...
DRAKE

I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don'...
AVRIL LAVIGNE

In Other Words: Artists Talk About Life and Work.
ANTHONY DECURTIS

I don't mind being the one people talk about. It doesn't weigh on me.
NEYMAR

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is...
LEONARD BASKIN

People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrat...
RICKI-LEE COULTER

I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I&...
SHARON JONES

I've done some really weird gigs. The ones where no one turned up - they're probably not the...
ED SHEERAN

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT

People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of cha...
EARL SWEATSHIRT

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'v...
C. S. LEWIS

My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.
LUIS FONSI

You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast...
AVA DUVERNAY

At AT&T, I learned an awful lot about people, and how important it is to have the right people i...
EDWARD WHITACRE, JR.

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of th...
ZACHARY LEVI

I thought most of the great soul artists were either relegated to the oldies circuit or being stuffe...
JOE HENRY

I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
CANDIS CAYNE

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It ...
ELIZABETH DEBICKI

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.
DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU

If you don't like something, talk about something else that's great and maybe someone else w...
ELIZABETH OLSEN

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't ...
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

The only thing the Pop Artists had in common is that we all had been commercial artists in some mann...
JAMES ROSENQUIST

I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk abou...
GWYNETH PALTROW

Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,' and that's the only fi...
ALAN RICKMAN

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people...
GRAHAM GREENE

I've actually taken meetings about hosting a late-night talk show. I don't know that what we...
RETTA

I bill myself as a naturalist because if you say you're a naturalist, it gives people a conversa...
GREG GRAFFIN

I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.
CHARLIE ROSE

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do ...
ADELE

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a r...
DANNY GLOVER

Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means t...
SYDNEY POLLACK

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
LOUIS C. K.

I don't only like rap music. There's everything from R&B to crazy gangster rap, hip hop....
KREAYSHAWN

People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'

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