Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
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 absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
Let silence be the art you practice.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
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.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
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.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
