Quotes About Art

You cannot sing African music in proper English

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it's not a cause. It is what it is-and that's a beautiful artform.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

I'm just an addict, addicted to music Maybe it's a habit...I gotta use it.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, than it's pretty much just a jingle selling bleach or pizza.

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Dance is music made visible

There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.