Quotes About Art

'Raaga' is one of those movies which is very special for any music director to compose music for.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

I feel we have a music industry within the film industry.

Music is my life, and if I like a song, chances are the world will also.

Music is my life. It is sacred.

Music is my life.

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.

I think the key to directing a great music video is in making sure the song is great, and if it is, then it becomes really fun.

'Lakshmi' is a dance film, a musical that deals with the emotional bond between the guru and his sishya.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

I don't have a musical bone in my body.

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

I did a lot of theater growing up, and in college I was in the musical 'Chicago.'

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.

I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.

I went to school for musical theater, and that is such a huge, central part of me.