And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

The earth has music for those who listen.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

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

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

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.