Quotes About Art

I first started listening to Sondheim's work when I was a kid.

Sondheim is New York.

There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'

Every song is like a painting.

A good song should give you a lot of images; you should be able to make your own little movie in your head to a good song.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

I have one favourite song, and that's 'Aayat' from 'Bajirao Mastani.'

'If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song.

I don't think a song should be put in a category.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

A close-up on screen can say all a song can.

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.

'My Name Is' by Eminem was a song that changed my life.

A song is a burden that you carry happily.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal.

It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.

Music does not have colour or religion. If I listen to a song, I don't care about the colour, religion, or country of the singer. It doesn't matter, even if it is in another language, because I love the music.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it.