Quotes About Art

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

I hope to do a visual for every single thing, even if it's as small as a gif or as big as a whole dance music film.

Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses.

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

I hope I have given back half the joy music has given me.

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Music isn't just heard, it is felt.

What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.