Quotes About Art

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

There's something in music which is obviously beyond language itself. It's communication in its purest form.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Modern music is three farts and a raspberry, orchestrated.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.