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Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

My proposition is that music is at the heart of what 'The Magic Flute' means: that it's Mozart's music, not the words, we should be attending to. Music expresses what can't be expressed otherwise.

I find I'm not one of these composers that are, you know, walking along a beach or walking on the mountainside in County Donegal that's, you know, 'Oh, a melody.' It's more a matter of eventually taking that moment with me to the studio, and it begins to evolve.

I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.