Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
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.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
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.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
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.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.