Quotes About Art

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

I take sounds and change them into words.

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

Hip hop minus plugged sounds can be a very different experience.

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

When you listen deeply to a song, you find all the little sounds they use and subconsciously learn how to produce and mix.

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

It's fatal to talk about acting. It sounds faintly ridiculous if you start analysing it.

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

You can use existing music in a film, but creating a soundtrack is very different. One note can be enough.

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.

I like soundtracks and I like film.