Graham Nash Quotes

I think songs and visuals are so evocative of each other.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Today, music is visual.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

The videos are definitely as important as the music.

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

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Whether I'm making my own record, or playing a guitar part, I want what I do to have an impact.

I want to make great songs.

I think my favorite medium is music, with my main tools being my voice and a guitar. But I do find every other medium extremely fulfilling and useful in helping everything I do. Sometimes I need to make a song just for a comic. All of the art and mediums are connected for me.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

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

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise.

There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative.

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.