Quotes About Art

Music is what I have to do, I only answer the questions so that I can do it.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

The life of music is bigger than all of us.

Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

Extreme volume in music very often disguises a lack of actually important content.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest.

I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

I think that music has an endless life.

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.