Music Art Quotes

For me, sampling is a high art. Most people don't see it that way, but it's a beautiful thing. I wouldn't know anything about music if it wasn't for samples.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their artistry by commercialization, and I don't want to belong to that bag.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

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

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

The model of a composer.

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly our temper and rules us to the depths of our souls.

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

Some movies work really well with music from Bach or Mahler that existed long before the film, so music has its own autonomy.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

"The way I feel about music -- any song, any style -- is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false. If the music and lyrics are conceived out of honesty and if the production of the song goes along with its original message, then what has been expressed is art, regardless of what anyone's opinion is of it. So things are a lots impler if you just tell the truth.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

Sometime I rap for the house. Sometime I rap live.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

I really, really like writing songs.

Pop music really is a love and a joy and a science [of songwriting].

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.

That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

When you'd buy vinyl, you'd have this lovely-sized object with a lovely picture, and you'd read the lyrics and usually there was something artistic that went with it.

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.