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Quotes About Art

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
~ Lesley Garrett
You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.
~ Pete Wentz
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
~ Luanne Rice, Summer of Roses
Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination
~ Iggy Pop
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
~ Serj Tankian
Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
~ Marc Chagall
Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.
~ Ashanti
As a musician usually music is your way out.
~ Damon Albarn
You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
~ Alfredo Kraus
I really and truly believe that music represents humanity's soul.
~ Yanni
[Bebop is] Chinese music.
~ Louis Armstrong
Music is organized sound.
~ Edgard Varese
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.
~ B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.
~ Julian Lennon
Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.
~ Confucius
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
~ Victoria Wood
I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?
~ Amanda Palmer
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
~ Agnes de Mille
A stone is frozen music
~ Pythagoras
I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.
~ Ansel Adams
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
~ M.I.A.
Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
~ Evelyn Glennie