Acquire Quote by Jonathan Lethem

But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

— Agatha Christie

I've never had anything in my life that I could create that felt more valuable than music. It is just art, but art is…

— Declan McKenna

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your…

— Karin Dreijer Andersson

When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me…

— Yasmine Hamdan

Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was…

— James Bay

I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your…

— David Sanborn

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

— Condola Rashad

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life. Whenever there was a choice between…

— Barry Manilow

When people listen to music, they don't worry about what it means like they do about art. Everyone's an expert on music, but with…

— Cornelia Parker

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's…

— Ani DiFranco

Music, and art for that matter, to me is not about true meaning to anyone else but yourself. If I told you the meaning…

— John O'Callaghan

To me, art is the capacity to experience one's innocence: craft is how you get to that point. Maturity in a musician would be…

— Robert Fripp