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

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.