Sean Lennon Quotes

The people need to feel the music.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.

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

Music is a language.

Music is important.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.

Music, for me, is the most sacred of the arts. I say that because music communicates in a way that no other art form can. All great art has a spirit that we recognize and appreciate, but music goes directly to your heart.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.