Art & Creativity Quote by Ken Hill

There is a quiet defensiveness baked into Ken Hill's line: "Music is an art form too". The "too" is doing the real work, implying a cultural hierarchy in which music gets treated as entertainment, ornament, or atmosphere while the so-called serious arts claim the higher ground. Coming from a playwright, it reads less like a musician lobbying for status and more like a theatre-maker pointing out a fact the arts world conveniently forgets when budgets, awards, and prestige get handed out.

Hill's second sentence sharpens the intent. He's not arguing for music's purity or separateness; he's arguing for its permeability. Theatre is the obvious subtext here: plays are already a collision of forms (text, performance, design, rhythm, silence). By saying other arts can "inspire" the musician, Hill is also smuggling in a claim about process. Composition isn't just technical craft or spontaneous genius; it's a conversation with paintings, stories, movement, architecture, even the staging logic of a scene.

Context matters: Hill spent his career adapting and reshaping existing works, often in musical contexts, long before "interdisciplinary" became an arts-funding buzzword. His phrasing is plain, almost apologetic, which is precisely why it lands. He's not romanticizing cross-pollination; he's normalizing it. The deeper message is political as well as aesthetic: stop policing borders between mediums, because the most alive work is usually made by artists who steal respectfully from one another and call it collaboration.