Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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?
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.
Play it fuckin' loud!
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Let silence be the art you practice.
