Art Quote by Michael Tippett

Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly,…

— Rosanna Arquette

"The way I feel about music -- any song, any style -- is that there is no right and wrong, only true and false.…

— Fiona Apple

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I think the artists are really the face of the music they make. It's no longer the genre that dictates it.

— Dua Lipa

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the…

— T Bone Burnett

The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity…

— Ronnie James Dio

Real music is always revolutionary, for it cements the ranks of the people; it arouses them and leads them onward.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

— Hans Hofmann

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

— Brad Holland

Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the…

— Kingsley Amis

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. However, and this is the supreme irony…

— Anonymous