Quotes About Art

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

Music is part of being human.

You always have to be diplomatic with music, with classical, with whatever you do.

I smash guitars because I like them.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Music creates order out of chaos.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Life without music is no life at all.

Any good groupie loves the music so much it's part of the bloodstream

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.