Art is never finished, only abandoned.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
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.
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?
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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.