Chris Ware Quotes

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

Every song is like a painting.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

Music is an expression of individuality; it's how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there - express it - whether it's sculpture, dance or singing.

A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.

I started out with piano when I was little. That, for songwriting, is my favorite instrument.

Music is all about creativity.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

I wish I could play music. I think I get as closeas possible with the editing of the films. Over the years musichas been an even more important influence than-or as important as-film.There's no doubt about it. Painting, movement, dance, sculpture-it'sall in cinema.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

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

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.