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

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

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

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

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 in the soul can be heard by the universe.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

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

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

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

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

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.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

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

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

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.