Audio Visual Quotes

When you sit down to write a film, you direct it in your head. If you are writing a scene, you are watching the scene. And maybe it's different when you are writing a novel because you are thinking of it in terms of being read. But films are only consumed one way - through the eyes and the ears.

I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.

I've been a visual artist my entire life, so translating music to imagery has always come naturally to me. Tycho is an audio-visual project in a lot of ways, so I don't see a real separation between the visual and musical aspects; they are both just components of a larger vision.

I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.

I want to make music three-dimensional. I want to make a song also a painting, and a painting also a culinary experience.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

The visuals are equally as important as the music. It's all a complete experience.

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio as well. It's emotional, and I want you to be engaged with not just the scene but with the characters.

The videos are definitely as important as the music.

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.

I often find myself feeling that filming music is somehow the purest form of filmmaking. This crazed collision of sound and images, the intense collaboration, these incredibly cinematic performances. And for the nights you're filming, a non-player like me gets to feel somehow part of the band.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

The concept and vision of 'Electronic Nature' is to give my fans a fully immersive sensory experience of music, visuals and more.

I'm a very visual person when it comes to writing music. I like to see something besides just a script, even if it's just a storyboard or pictures from the set.

I relate more to the fact that 80-inch plasma has just started to become ubiquitous and in people's homes the fairly decent 5.1 sound system and the big screen isn't that out of reach.

Our live shows are a visual as well as a musical experience.

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

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

There will never be talking pictures.

Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song.