Iggy Pop Quotes

With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

Music is important.

Music is the strongest form of magic.

I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.

Music has always been profoundly important to me.

I just love music, and I love what music does for people.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

Music is a living art.

One of the most extraordinary and all-encompassing forms of communication is music. It reaches places that all kinds of other things cannot reach. I'll put my cards on the table: I think it is our greatest language.

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?

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.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I don't really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, 'Blimey, look at that.'

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.

The people need to feel the music.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it.

Music is a language.

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?