Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

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.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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?

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

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.