Aaron Copland on Art / Music
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Art / Music
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Tom Stoppard on Art / Music
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Will Rogers on Art / Music
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
Fred Roger on Art / Music
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
Oscar Wilde on Art / Music
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Henry Louis Mencken on Art / Music
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Albert Einstein on Art / Music
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires.
Richard Strauss on Art / Music
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
Oscar Wilde on Art / Music
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.