The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.