Maya Angelou Quotes

Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

Music fathoms the sky.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.

Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.

Art is spiritual.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

Music is closer to poetry than anything.

My only passion is music.