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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

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

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

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

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.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

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.

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

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.