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

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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

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

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

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

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.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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

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