Quotes About Art

Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

..my music isn't just music- its medicine.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.

Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.