Michael Ian Black Quotes

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world

In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave.

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.

Most people can't see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.

Music affects people in a way that bare facts can't.

Music is art, and making watches is art, too.

Music, like film, is an incredible tool for creating empathy.

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.

I love any TV show that has to do with singing.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.

When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.

One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.

You can't get down and dirty at the opera.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

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

A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.