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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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.

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

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

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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

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

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

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

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