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.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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