Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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

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.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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