Quotes About Music

I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.

I play drums and guitar, I snowboard, I do martial arts and acrobatics. I go to the movies every Friday.

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.

I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

The moving accident is not my trade; To freeze the blood I have no ready arts: 'Tis my delight, alone in summer shade, To pipe a simple song for thinking hearts.

Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.

The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature.

The most important person is the audience and the composer. The rest of us - and even the composer is a servant to the audience. And of course, the audience is a servant to the higher art.