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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

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

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

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?

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.