Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

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

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

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

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

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.