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

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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

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.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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

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