Quotes About Art

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Music is what our feelings sound like.

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.