“The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.”
“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the same.”
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
“Musicians have notes. Painters have paint. Writers have words.”
“For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.”
“...God was like the best musician in the world, because he put together all the sounds of nature and gave people like Jimi Hendrix his fingers and John Lennon his brain.”