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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

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

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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

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

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

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

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