Quotes About Art

Those who love music are gentle and honest in their tempers. I always loved music, and would not, for a great matter, be without the little skill which I possess in the art.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

The music is everything to me.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.