The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

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

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.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

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

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.