Quotes About Art

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

As the Trump presidency goes on, there will be a transcendency of power and culture and vision from the music scene, the art world that will find a voice and give hope to us all.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

I only write when listening to the music.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

Cherish the music that stirs in your heart.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.