Quotes About Art

Formalism is music that people don't understand at first hearing.

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

I think music as we know it, is autobiographical.

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Music was the voice I didn't have.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

Music and improving the world are two sides of the same coin.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.