Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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

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

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.