The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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

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

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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

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