Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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.

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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?

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Play it fuckin' loud!

To play without passion is inexcusable!

The earth has music for those who listen.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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

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

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.