Quotes About Art

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.

Music is one big thing to me.

I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors as Bach has done in music.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

Music is the most abstract of the arts and also the most physical....music is under two signs, the stars and the wine

Music is my wife and acting is my girlfriend.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

I'm really happy when I'm immersed in the art of it all - immersed in the music, the dance, the visual. Tapping into joy - it saves you.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that.

Music has no race. It appeals to everybody.

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

My musical ambitions are not that great. I make music I like, and thankfully - for my ability to make an (fairly...) honest living - at least some others like the music too.

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.