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

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 is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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

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

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

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

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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his 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.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.