The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

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

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

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

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?

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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

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