Quotes About Music

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

Music and acting are the same thing: you must understand that art is only the search, not the final form.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

Despite the fact that I'm not highly skilled in any visual art, aesthetics have always played a strong role in my art, including my first albums.

At dances when I was a little kid, Art would be up there singing while I'd be dancing with some girl a foot taller than me.

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.

I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.

I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.