Quotes About Art

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.

People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

The way I choose to show my feelings is through my songs.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

Music is the universal language.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.