Brigham Young Quotes

My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself.

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

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.

High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration.

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness.

I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.

The studio is just a labor. Getting on stage is the reward.

Success and singing is not synonymous.

I'm a musician, and I discovered the power of music pretty early in life.

While I was playing football in the U.S., I learnt to play the guitar, and I'm picking it up again now.

I think I've proven that I've improved every part of my game.

Meru is the culmination of all I've done and all I've wanted to do.

Once you start to become OK at something, you learn to enjoy it more.

I'm not trying to take over the world, but I find it really rewarding to write, and I thrive on learning.

That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.

I want to win a ring, get better and try to learn.

I decided I want to sing more because that's been my passion since I was six.

You can be successful without learning music, but success has nothing to do with quality.

I'm happy to have interns at The Weekly Standard and happy to have readers of The Weekly Standard, but if you all tell me that you were busy reading Plato and [Lev] Tolstoy and playing violin in the orchestra, I'd say that was great. I wouldn't tell you to take time out from that to get involved in political journalism.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.