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

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

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

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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 magic delivered from the lie of being truth.