Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

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

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.

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.