Quotes About Music

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

Today, I find inspiration in music, art, traveling the world, and meeting new people.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't just play whatever comes into your head; you have to be very deliberate about what you do.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

I feel like I have a pretty eclectic taste in music and art, so for every song I can see a different kind of video.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.

Boulez, who is everything I don't want art to be... Boulez, who once said in an essay that he is not interested in how a piece sounds, only how it is made.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.