Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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

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.

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.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.