Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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

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.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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.

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