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.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

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?

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

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.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

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.

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