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.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

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

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

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.