I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Let silence be the art you practice.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
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?
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 true art of memory is the art of attention.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.