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.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
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.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.