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.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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.

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

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

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.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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