The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
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.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
The earth has music for those who listen.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
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.
