I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
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.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
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.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
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.