Quotes About Art

In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things.

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

The most important things cannot be spoken; that's why there's music.

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

I write music, it's performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn't need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.

Music is interior decoration.

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

My ambition was to live like music.

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love.

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you're worshipping.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.