One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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 should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.