Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.