Top 100 Art Music Quotes
#1. Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.
One9
#2. If movies and music are vehicles for emotionally "hooking" people into Hollywood worldviews, then the best countermeasure is to create more compelling, more beautiful forms of art that express a biblical worldview.
Nancy Pearcey
#3. Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
James Freeman Clarke
#4. Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.
Alyson Noel
#5. Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.
Avril Lavigne
#7. I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?
Mark Bradford
#8. I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
Chuck Berry
#10. Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.
Cass McCombs
#11. That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.
Frances Stark
#12. I don't think music is an art any more than cooking food is an art.
Frank Fairfield
#14. Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.
Susan Sontag
#15. Making lyrics feel natural, sit on music in such a way that you don't feel the effort of the author, so that they shine and bubble and rise and fall, is very, very hard to do. Whereas you can sit at the piano and just play and feel you're making art.
Stephen Sondheim
#16. I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
Dan Reynolds
#17. Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
Wm. Paul Young
#18. Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.
Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.
Presoak it in dance, music and art.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#19. I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest,
Riccardo Tisci
#20. I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
James Gray
#21. I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.
Black Francis
#22. Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
Alex North
#23. When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
Jerome Isaac Friedman
#24. Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
Francois Truffaut
#25. Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.
Judy Collins
#26. I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.
Bruce Springsteen
#27. In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.
It's my box. Put what you want in yours.
Joan Oliver Goldsmith
#29. I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.
John Lennon
#30. My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.
Nick Clegg
#31. There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.
Ingmar Bergman
#32. I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.
Ice Cube
#33. Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.
Art Linkletter
#34. We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.
Marvin Minsky
#35. In Australia, there aren't a lot of people committed to art, so these communities form that are dedicated to music, theater, cinema, but they're very small. So, they tend to move ahead on the power of collaboration, enthusiasm and creativity.
Joel Edgerton
#36. There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.
Ben Folds
#37. Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.
Frederic Chopin
#38. Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself.
Rosanna Arquette
#39. We are cutting things kids like-music, art, and gym classes; stuff that kept me in school. This country can't survive without you kids. It's all about you kids.
Tony Danza
#40. Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.
Jean Douchet
#41. Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.
Billy Sherwood
#42. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.
Bill Gates
#43. Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.
Joey Comeau
#44. I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.
Pat Conroy
#45. I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
Laurance Rockefeller
#46. What you do in your art - TV, music, film stuff - touches people. And they want to touch you. So that's a blessing. I'm okay with it.
LL Cool J
#47. In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.
Shawn Lukas
#48. When a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also are inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to flee to the margins; it was ... this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.
Orhan Pamuk
#49. I happen to have a certain fondness for existing
soda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all the things you would miss: Cartoons, music, movies, video games, music, art, fingernail growth, sex ... well, perhaps not sex, depending on how weird your mortician is.
Jhonen Vasquez
#50. Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The Institute.
Craig Claiborne
#51. If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion.
Andy Samberg
#52. If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
Damian Loeb
#54. I think the fact that Napster is stealing recorded music is something that we have to stop. It's taking money out of my kid's mouth. That's the way I look at it. It's wrong. It's inherently wrong. It's stealing.
Art Alexakis
#55. I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.
Amandla Stenberg
#56. To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity
be it art, music, literature, or science
is the way it enriches our lives.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#57. Rock was different from rock and roll. Rock was virtuosic and adult, as opposed to popsy and teenaged. Rock and roll was apolitical and fun, while rock was "heavy" and often political, creating vistas of psychic energy that carried beyond the music itself and into radical politics and art.
Stephen Davis
#58. 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.
Macklemore
#59. You have to be able to use it [art] to effect change in the community. That's what gives the film and the music an impactful legacy.
One9
#60. We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.
Erykah Badu
#61. Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.
Giles Andreae
#62. Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.
David Sanborn
#63. For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
Iggy Azalea
#64. I began seriously concentrating on music study after I entered senior high school. I went to a class in the arts section at the YMCA and learned music theory and composition. Today, there are many classes like this available, but this was not so much the case in those days.
Isao Tomita
#65. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.
Ronnie Apteker
#66. You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
Keith Richards
#67. When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.
Dylan Lauren
#68. I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?
Nicolas Cage
#69. I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.
Adria Petty
#70. I look at composers and conductors, anybody involved in music or writing or art in general; they got more done as they got older. If I can, I'll be one of those people because what I do is my passion.
Sarah Brightman
#72. Therapy is to make one happy. What is the point of that? Happy people are not interesting. Better to accept the burden of unhappiness and try to turn it into something worthwhile, poetry or music or painting: that is what he been believes.
J.M. Coetzee
#73. Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.
Richie Hawtin
#74. Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.
Billy Baldwin
#75. It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody.
Noel Gallagher
#76. I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male.
Kurt Cobain
#77. I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
Arnaud Desplechin
#78. I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.
Harvey Pekar
#79. As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.
Robert Stromberg
#80. I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
Serj Tankian
#81. Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart..
Pablo Casals
#82. Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
Michael Franti
#83. Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yanni
#84. The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
Marco Brambilla
#86. To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.
Morrissey
#87. Frieda, you despise English music. You know you do. And English art. And English literature, except Shakespeare, and he's a German.
E. M. Forster
#88. The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning." Poetry and art, and the fairest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise.
Henry David Thoreau
#89. The maker movement is mostly about building things (whether low-tech or high-tech), as well as creating art and music. But it's driven by project-based, peer-to-peer learning, which tends to happen as novice "makers
Warren Berger
#90. I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.
Jill Sobule
#91. Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
Martin Luther
#92. With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
Umberto Boccioni
#93. Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration - poetry, novels, music, dancing - if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.
Ben Fountain
#94. A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts
Joseph Addison
#95. I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
Zoe Wanamaker
#96. We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.
Miuccia Prada
#97. I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry ... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.
Guy Oseary
#98. I think that's really important, that kids get exposed to music as soon as they can - not necessarily to become musicians, but at least have an outlet. It's an art form that's easily accessible to young ears.
Joe Perry
#99. Even if I could, I wouldn't want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music.
Terry Teachout
#100. The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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