The earth has music for those who listen.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

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.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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

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?

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

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

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

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