Quotes About Art

It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

The thing about Nashville is, it's not just country music...There's rock & roll, there's every kind of music. It's just a music town...There's so much fun stuff to get in to.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.

I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Music without a message is just sound

The tragedy of music is that it begins with perfection.

Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

Music is an experience, not a science.

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.