Art Quote by Tim Burton

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

— Michael Ondaatje

Movies and television have a way of using a soundtrack not just to create a mood but to literalize it. You could always count…

— Wesley Morris

People have always commented along the way that, 'You guys are always so visual in what you do.' The songs have always had a…

— Russell Mael

When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw…

— Nicolas Cage

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an…

— Keren Ann

I think the overall mood of the music informs the artwork, but I've found that good lyrics can be inspirational, too.

— Neil Farber

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

— Anne Rice

A good theme - like the 'Pink Panther' or 'Baby Elephant Walk' - can work all the way through the picture, which is what…

— Henry Mancini

Melodies that get stuck up in your head.

— Sugarland

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great…

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

Alan Menken is so gifted in terms of coming up with these great melodies. What I learned from working with him was how to…

— Stephen Schwartz

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

— Jean Cocteau