Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.