Quotes About Art

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Flowers are my music.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Dance, like music, knows no geographical boundaries, no linguistic barriers and no racial divisions. All walls crumble where art is concerned. It is a great unifying and integrating force.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.