John Luther Adams Quotes

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

Where the eye divides, the ear connects.

As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.