Quotes About Art

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

I've rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.

But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, like it's not going to happen.

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

I think that music, or at least the kind of music that I make, benefits greatly from improvisation.

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.