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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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.

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

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.