Michael Horse Quotes

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

If you kill the arts, you kill love, and you kill progress.

Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

The value of music is not dazzling yourself and others with technique.

Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

I myself saw the great works of Western civilization for the first time in my high school in Lithuania in bad black-and-white reproductions on miserable paper. That was, for many years, what art was for me. But from those miserable black-and-white reproductions, I got something, something unmistakable.

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?

When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain.

The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such.

Art is the skin of the soul.

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.

Music is a major cornerstone of our success.

Imagine a world without art: it's George Orwell's nightmare!

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

I think if my father was a truck driver, I would have wanted to share the beauty that was there. He just happens to be Johnny Cash.