Quotes About Art

Life without music is unthinkable.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

I love music more than I love people.