Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

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

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

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

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

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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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.

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

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

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

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

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