I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.
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“I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.”
— John Waite · Art School
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“I was going to be a painter. I went to art school - but every 16-year-old wants to be a painter.”
“On stage, it's like an argument going on between four people. The argument is the art.”
“You know, the European record labels always say, 'We want 12 songs and then we want bonus songs,' and you're going, 'What for? Why?' That's not a record.”
“'When I See You Smile' - that was not what we should have been doing in Bad English.”
“There's an easy way to tell if you have a good song. You get hit in the head with a message, and you get hit in the feet with a rhythm. You're beaten up with music. It's a beautiful thing when that happens.”
“Experience teaches you a few tricks, but energy is key. Its what keeps you pumped.”
More Art School Quotes
“Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.”
“Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.”
“My dad went to art school when I was one. They scraped and continued scraping, because artists, as we all know, don't earn a lot of money. It's a precarious existence and my mum didn't work, so dad sold paintings.”
“In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.”
“I went to an art school, so I was a choir boy.”
“I'm creative. I can't relax unless I've got some project on the go. I'm somebody from art school, and art school during the punk era, when you just had a go at whatever came along.”