Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

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

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

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

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

Music can change the world because it can change people.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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.

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.