Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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

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

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

The earth has music for those who listen.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

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