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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.