Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine – it kinda sucks the life out of music.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

I’ve rarely seen video screens used well in a music concert.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

The thing about hip-hop today is it’s smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he’s up there with Bryan Ferry.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

I’ve noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it’s various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

I always use Michael as, first and foremost, a vocal inspiration, and ‚Off the Wall‘ was definitely the one that made me feel like I could sing.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I tell my fellow reggaetoneros, keep giving it your all and bring more creativity.

My goal in music is to create nostalgic moments.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

I used to love Kurt Cobain, when he was telling people we’re a pop band. People would laugh, they thought of it as good old ironic Kurt. But he wasn’t being ironic.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Young people can create beautiful things.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I’ve always loved Def Leppard, ever since I was little.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

I want my fans to love themselves. It’s almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

I think that success is having fun.

Well, Art is Art, isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

An operatic voice is like no other.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

When I listen to ‚Nevermind,‘ I hate the production, but there’s something about it that almost makes me cry at times.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

I’ve made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I’m allowed to write my own music.

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I’m in awe of her.

I don’t intend to stop making music.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!