Quotes About Art

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

I've always been fascinated with the strong emotional ties that music can have. A song can bring you back to a place or a season of life like no other art form can.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.

There's music in everything, even defeat

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe.

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

Music is catharsis for me.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.

I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words.

I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

I can't act without music very well.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Music is kind of my everything.