I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all 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.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
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 never finished, only abandoned.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
