Christopher Robin Milne Quotes

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

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 feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

It's really touching that we can come back after so long and care about making an album that says as much as this one does. And after all this time, we really do care about each other.

I have to tell you that I love people. When I see the kids coming up and see what they have done with the music, it's amazing.

Music is math; music is spiritual.

It would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of [a work], outside of the narrowest and most obvious limits. At the one extreme some works of genius would be sure to miss appreciation. Their very novelty would make them repulsive until the public had learned the new language in which their author spoke.

Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

I'm so happy to be a song-writer - I'm even surprised when I get to record anything. I consider it a considerable privilege and a blessing to have a medium of expression that has a place in the world.

The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.

I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.

Kids would come up to me after concerts and give me drawings they've made of violins or, you know, landscapes with a violin floating in it or some sketch of a concert or a portrait of me.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books. Not everybody has to do it.

Even within K-pop, there should be more representation. It's not just groups, and it's not just incredibly produced, highly choreographed pieces. There are vocalists, there's R&B, there's hip-hop, there are other types of people and voices. There's space for all of that to be shared and to be appreciated.

I love to look at beauty.

I love my painting - it fills me with passion. But it's not something I expect anyone else to love.

When I hear other artists that are new and fresh and exciting, then I get excited.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?