Quotes About Art

Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

Music's another big love of mine.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.

I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.

I really don't know anything about music, and it's no great experience for me. But I do think that music has a purifying element.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

No matter what culture you're from, everyone loves music.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.