Quotes About Music

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

There is a lot of snobbery towards pop music, to me and pop in general - it's kind of a despised art form.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art - instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Art inspires me. Looking at art in a museum, listening to music, reading the works of other writers.

I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art.

You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment.

Bring me a girl, they're always the best. You put 'em on stage, and you have 'em undress.

Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.