Air Quote by Flea

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

— Yanni

To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really…

— Brandon Boyd

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

— Tom Lehrer

Music is an intrinsic part of life; therefore, it is important to transport different forms of artistic expression, science, and mathematics into compositions.

— Ludovico Einaudi

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.

— King Krule

Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of…

— Flea

To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations…

— Iannis Xenakis

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want…

— Ikue Mori

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

— Karl Lagerfeld

If there's loads of material going by you don't notice the individual things quite so much. Also it really foregrounds the sonic dimensions like…

— Max Richter

Music is like cooking for me: you mix the ingredients together in one big pan and see how they end up. Through experimenting, you…

— Jacob Collier

There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you…

— Maya Angelou