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

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.

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

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

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

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

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

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