Quotes About Art

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.

It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.