Quotes About Art And Music

#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. Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

Avril Lavigne

#5. 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

#6. I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Chuck Berry

#7. Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Cass McCombs

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.

Dan Reynolds

#11. 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

#12. Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.
Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.
Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#13. I love art and music more than I love fashion, to be honest,

Riccardo Tisci

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Bruce Springsteen

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Art isn't just paint and music, art is breaking glass and the sounds we make without realizing.

Joey Comeau

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.

Shawn Lukas

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. I love all kinds of art. I mean, I love sketching and acting and music.

Amandla Stenberg

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

Adria Petty

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

Yanni

#52. 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

#53. To me you are a work of art, and I would give you my heart - that's if I had one.

Morrissey

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. I'm a bit of a lefty. I like the idea of art and music collectives.

Jill Sobule

#58. 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

#59. I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.

Zoe Wanamaker

#60. 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

#61. Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

Cyndi Lauper

#62. The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.

Robert Aris Willmott

#63. The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Steve Earle

#64. Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

Erik Parker

#65. Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening ... It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

Marc Jacobs

#66. And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

Pete Seeger

#67. My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Maira Kalman

#68. When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings
are the only form of art which will remain to reign.

Soar

#69. When I went through the break-up, I really looked for some kind of music, or art or literature that could say, "I've been in the same situation." I couldn't find anything at the moment, and that made me really sad.

Jens Lekman

#70. I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

Elizabeth Berkley

#71. Letter from Van Gogh to Gauguin: Ah! my dear friend, to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us ... a consolatory art for distressed hearts! There are as yet only a few who feel it as you and I do!!! [Letter 739, Arles, 21 January 1889]

Liesbeth Heenk

#72. Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#73. When the music comes, you try to see it shining between your eyes. Like threads stretched taut and the notes as colored beads threaded on. When you get very good, it's as if you can see inside the music, through it. You bring the music alive, bring it into being. As if you're the one composing.

Anna Smaill

#74. The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.

David Finckel

#75. Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.

Conor Oberst

#76. With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

Joseph Curiale

#77. Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

T Bone Burnett

#78. Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

Marketa Irglova

#79. I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

Rosanne Cash

#80. Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul. And I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.

Greg Lake

#81. Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

Lara St. John

#82. Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even into their own Web ventures.

Neil Strauss

#83. It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

David Byrne

#84. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.

Thomas Huynh

#85. Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

Aldo Leopold

#86. An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

Bat For Lashes

#87. My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

Yoko Ono

#88. Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

Sheryl Crow

#89. Art and music is part of what it means to be a human being. And if you're neglecting that, you're basically ignoring a huge side of the brain and a huge side of what it means to be human.

Joshua Bell

#90. If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

Kristin Hersh

#91. I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

Tunde Adebimpe

#92. In our world, love, sex, music, and dance are all integrated into one experience. Love, and the arts of music and dance go together.

Ron Galella

#93. Art is sacred.
Punk rock is freedom.
Expression and right to express is vital.
Anyone can be artistic.

Kurt Cobain

#94. Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

Will Durant

#95. We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find that the serious ethical dilemmas are better handled by Shakespeare and Tolstoy and Schiller and Dostoyevsky and George Eliot than in the mythical morality tales of the holy books.

Christopher Hitchens

#96. Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

Frederick Lenz

#97. Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

Julie Garwood

#98. That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.

Edwidge Danticat

#99. The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.

RZA

#100. I want to live with that sense with the music I make, with the art I make, with the way I love my kids, with the way I am a father and a husband and a friend and a follower of Christ, I want to live with reckless abandonment to the truth of the Gospel.

Steven Curtis Chapman