Words matter. These are the best New Artist Quotes from famous people such as Rakim, Charlie Puth, John Prine, Ella Mai, Yuna, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Being a new artist, I was trying to make a good album and hope that people like Kool Moe Dee and Melle Mel and some of the firstborns appreciated it. I was being influenced by them brothers there. That’s where I got my start and my first listen.
Shy Carter helped me write ‘One Call Away.’ He is a brand new artist. I really want to help jumpstart his career because I think he’s super-talented.
My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 – I was nominated for best new artist of the year.
Mustard believes in me so much. It’s good to have a mentor that’s been through it. Even though he’s a producer, he’s been a new artist.
My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 – I was nominated for best new artist of the year.
When I got signed to the ‘Fader’ Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.
If a new artist comes, and he doesn’t have a good record label to invest in him, then there is no point.
I knew it would happen. I knew I’d be No. 1. I’m a new artist; I don’t know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn’t happen.
You’re only a new artist one time, and I can just say I’m so blessed. I feel so inspired to do other things, to be so much more.
The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.
I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there’s one who’s great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can’t believe.
I’m new to a lot of people, and I don’t think anyone wants to listen to 16 tracks of a new artist.
I’ve been starting in new places year after year after year. It’s just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I’m a new artist. It’s a chance to start over.
Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He’s a young guy.
If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might be hard to get traction. It’s so much easier for someone established to put out a really heartfelt, deep song and get it played in radio.
It wasn’t supposed to work – being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. That’s what made it so much sweeter when we hit No. 1.
Being called a new artist doesn’t bother me at all.
The way streaming is going, this movement in the market of music would suggest that doing a long-form project, especially for a new artist like me – someone who relies on a lot of digital following – it would make more sense for me to release the songs individually.
The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.
As a new artist – I don’t care who you talk to – I think everyone would agree, it’s hard to get your expectations right.
When you’re, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don’t really take the time to make you look beautiful.
As a new artist there’s always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
When you’re, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don’t really take the time to make you look beautiful.
If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, ‘Let’s have the artist play just before Gaga.’ Now you’ve exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It’s similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.
It wasn’t supposed to work – being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. That’s what made it so much sweeter when we hit No. 1.
If a new artist wants to put out some sort of off-the-wall, crazy deep ballad about the sun or whatever, it might be hard to get traction. It’s so much easier for someone established to put out a really heartfelt, deep song and get it played in radio.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
My record label is treating me like I’m a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a bonus.
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn’t have to be pushed out.
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn’t have to be pushed out.
I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there’s one who’s great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can’t believe.
Mustard believes in me so much. It’s good to have a mentor that’s been through it. Even though he’s a producer, he’s been a new artist.
The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They’re able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.
My record label is treating me like I’m a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it’s art or not.
Just to be nominated, and especially as a new artist and a female artist, is a feat. Winning anything is just a bonus.
I’m a really new artist here. I would say that my style is an artist who can dance and sing. That’s why my album is really upbeat. Maybe we will try slowly to do ballads or middle tempo songs.
When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it’s art or not.
If you’re a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it’s a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn’t even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn’t have an audience.
As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there’s a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In ’05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I’m nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.
Being called a new artist doesn’t bother me at all.
When I got signed to the ‘Fader’ Label, they got really excited about having me as their new artist. They were promoting my music everywhere. Pharrell was one of the producers who wanted to work with me, so I was really lucky to be one of those people who got to work with him.
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He’s a young guy.
If you’re a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it’s a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn’t even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn’t have an audience.
Each day I record I’m always doing something different that I’ve never done. So I feel like I’m a new artist every time I go to the studio.
All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I’m nominated for Best New Artist, it feels like a dream.
The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.
As a new artist, you come out, and there are so many other new artists. It seems like there’s a whole wave of new artists that come along every year. In ’05, I was part of the crop. It was a lot harder trying to set myself apart from the rest of the pack.
The way streaming is going, this movement in the market of music would suggest that doing a long-form project, especially for a new artist like me – someone who relies on a lot of digital following – it would make more sense for me to release the songs individually.
It’s so different now coming out as a new artist today than it was when I came out almost ten years ago. Now, it’s all about singles, it’s really quick, it’s online. I came out when people sold records and they still do today but – I don’t know what the key is.
If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, ‘Let’s have the artist play just before Gaga.’ Now you’ve exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It’s similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.
