Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you’re into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.

I call architecture frozen music.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn’t have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that – except I couldn’t afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

I enjoy all forms of music – pop, classical and opera.

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

And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I’m going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I’m going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan.

I couldn’t have written things like ‚Low‘ and ‚Heroes,‘ those particular albums, if it hadn’t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Doing the box set is one of those things where you get to rewrite your own history to some extent. We could take out some of the songs that we felt weren’t as strong as some of the others, so you look better.

It doesn’t bother me when people try to deconstruct my songs – because at least they’re looking at the lyrics, and paying attention to the way the story is told.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

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

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I’m blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

You know, Nirvana used to start rehearsals with the three of us just jamming. For, like, a half an hour, just noise and freeform crap – and usually it was crap. But sometimes things would come from it, and some songs on Nevermind came from that, and ‚Heart Shaped Box‘ and stuff on ‚In Utero‘ just happened that way.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

I didn’t know the term ‚synesthesia‘ until I was working on ‚Cruel Summer.‘ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole ‚enigmatic artist‘ thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I would love to get Rihanna on a Khaled song. That’s my friend, but every time I’m around her, I get shy.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.

Taylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Painting, I think it’s like jazz.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.