Quotes About Art

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

Music should be some kind of nourishment.

I'm saddest when I sing.

Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

I love the '70s. I think the '70s had the best music and the best movies.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.

If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all