Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The earth has music for those who listen.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time