The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

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.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

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

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.