Jonny Greenwood Quotes

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

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 moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

My heart and soul is still music.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

Composing is my life blood.

The songs in 'Wonderland' don't have a melodic life for me - I'm not a musical person - but they have an emotional life, an emotional echo perhaps.

When we separate music from life we get art.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

That's the thing about music: It's forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That's the whole idea about what I love about art and music.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

The only goal is in the process. The process is in the thing with little flashes of light: those are the gigs, the live shows... it's the life in between. That's all I've got.

I can't imagine a world without music.

My music is inspired by my life: the people in my life, the people I have relationships with, the people I love, the people that make me feel something.

What inspires me to paint is life, my emotions, through my paintings I want people to understand that life isn't always happy but you should be always hopeful that's why I use bright colors in my paintings, that's what I want people to feel about me and when they see my art.

We wanted to make music to fit with the way we live and celebrate life.

I express my thoughts through my music.

Music is an expression, a deep-seated feeling.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

There is always space for good music.

I've always had a profound conviction that great music is about joy, even in the face of tragedy.

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.