Music and Art

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach, German writer

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That is the reason for music.
Ludwig van Beethoven

I only know two pieces; one is "Clair de Lune" and the other one isn't.
Victor Borge

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

Music is the soundtrack of your life.
Dick Clark

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.
Maria Callas

"Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what that meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No."
Aaron Copland

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.
Pablo Casals

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

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Carrie Fisher

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course, I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
Kermit the Frog

Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

I don't know anything about music: In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard

Sheet music is like a language, the acquisition's the same. If you're not fluent by the time you're eight, it will always be a foreign language...
piano teacher, "Everwood"

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

It is the artist's calculated risk... like the candle you can burn for so long... you can cause it to burn brighter, but it will also burn faster... still, I'd rather do that than flicker dimly in a corner.

Why do we teach music
Not because we expect you to major in music. Not because we expect you to play and sing all your life. Not so you can relax. But... so you will be human. So you will recognize beauty. So you will be sensitive. So you will have something to cling to. So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good, in short, more life. Of what value will it be to make a prosperous living unless you know how to live?
That is why we teach.

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
Oscar Wilde

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician, or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.
Henry M. Wriston (1889-1978), 11th president of Brown University

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.
Shneur Zalman

Wake up every day and go through what you go through. But the beautiful moments that you share with people that you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the pain and sorrow. Those moments should be cherished, and I think that's what music is all about -- to remind people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's life.
Charlie Haden, Grammy-winning jazz artist