Let silence be the art you practice.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

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 mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

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?

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

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

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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