I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
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?
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
The earth has music for those who listen.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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.