Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
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.
Play it fuckin' loud!
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
