Quotes About Art

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Bad music can make you weak.

Ego is my career. Rap music is all ego.

Silence is the potential from which music can arise.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Music is a language, a universal language.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

Me and music. Music was always my first love. It was my first love for sure. And still is a huge part of my life.