Music Quotes

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill.

I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.