Musical Art Quotes

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

I grew up in a house full of musicians, and my mum really taught me that when you listen to an album, you respect that it's somebody's art, and that the B-sides are just as important as the singles, and we should really listen to the album all the way through the way it was intended to be listened to.

There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art. ... A lot of my songs are very serious, I'm like dead serious about certain things and I feel that I'm writing about the world, through my own eyes. ... I have a love for simple basic song structure, although sometimes you'd never know it. ... Most of the songs I wrote at night. I would just wake in the middle of the night. That's when I found the space to write.

One does not play the piano with one's fingers: one plays the piano with one's mind.

We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I think it's beautiful, not necessarily commercial.

There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

Whether it be personal or musical, I just think I'm a walking art piece, just a ball of creativity.

What is my definition of jazz? "Safe sex of the highest order."

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

The reason why the music [jazz] is important is because it's an art form-an ancient art form-that takes in the mythology of our people.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

I enjoy making music and take my time to do everything until it is 'perfect.'

Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.

I like singing too much, and I believe in the art form, the musical. When it's great, there's nothing better, and when it's bad, there's nothing worse.

There is still some art in pop music. But it can't happen if you're not inspired.

That's what I've tried to do: I've tried to make music that I really love.