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.
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.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
The earth has music for those who listen.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
Play it fuckin' loud!
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.