Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
The earth has music for those who listen.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
