Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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.

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?

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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.

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

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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