Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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.

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

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.

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

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