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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

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

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

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.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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 absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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