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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

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

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

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time