Please Quote Me

A library of quotes by artists about other artists. It’s simple. We want to hear what artists have to say about other artists. Nothing else. Every quote cited. Every edge directed.

“The professional senses who has served his time and who hasn’t. Like Alan Ladd and Jack Palance circling each other in Shane, a gun recognizes another gun.”
Steven Pressfield — The War of Art

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“I been talking to him in my brain for 12 years, and now I don't have nothing to say to him.”

Patti Smith on Bob Dylan Rolling Stone (interview by Dave Marsh) · 1976 Cited

“The Clash are authentic because their music carries such brutal conviction, not because they're Noble Savages.”

Lester Bangs on The Clash New Musical Express (NME) · 1977 Cited

“The friendship was basically that this guy salvaged me from certain professional and maybe personal annihilation — simple as that.”

Iggy Pop on David Bowie The New York Times (interview by Jon Pareles) · 2016 Cited

“I don't know Johnny Rotten, but I'm sure, I'm sure he puts as much blood and sweat into what he does as Sigmund Freud did.”

Iggy Pop on John Lydon CBC, 90 Minutes Live (interview by Peter Gzowski) · 1977 Cited

“He said, "Why don't you write a song called 'Vicious'?" And I said, "Well, Andy, what kind of vicious?" "Oh, you know, vicious like I hit you with a flower." And I wrote it down, literally.”

Lou Reed on Andy Warhol Rolling Stone · 1989 Cited

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