Karl Kraus Quotes

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and must remain the answer, the alternative, to the conservative approach of making music.

For the name Lion Babe, we are a little avant-garde, a little left. And with bands like Blondie, Pink Floyd, or Jamiroquai, you don't know they're bands, you just kind of hear the name and you're like 'What is it?' so that was the kind of thing we wanted to do.

I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.

Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

This is the golden age of grotesque.

I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.

I'm very careful of not being critical of other people's movies, which work in different styles. I think some of my movies can be interpreted as critical of their subjects.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... 'Cause there are so many sleeping people.

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.