Dejan Stojanovic Quotes

One Long Year was just a song here and there, and it was meant to reflect the mood that I was in but unfortunately it also reflected too little of any particular thing rather than hanging together as a whole album.

I love the power of the musician who composes and performs. I envy their ability to put a nugget of truth in three minutes of sweat and emotional outpouring, colored entirely from their thoughts.

It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

The feeling that you want the listener to get, you should get yourself when you first hit that chord, and that melody comes to mind.

'Iceman' covers a bigger scope than 'Long Day's Journey.' But they're both fabulous pieces of work. 'Iceman' is like a symphony. It's got all the movements, all these different voices. 'Long Day's Journey' is more like a beautiful string quartet.

Music is the perfect type of art.

Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing.

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression of the human mind and spirit, so light can be used visually to express the mind and spirit.

My work is immaterial. It's not painting, it's not sculpture, it's emotions. I'm giving you something to experience yourself.

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

I'm doing more than just making songs for the radio. I want it to be a well rounded sounding experience.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

A whole tree of lightning stood in the sky. She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death. The thunder rolled.

Music gives 'wings' to words.