Quotes About Art

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

Music is the cup that holds the wine of silence. Sound is that cup, but empty. Noise is that cup, but broken.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I don't look at this as just a job. I think of music as art.