Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

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.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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

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

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

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.