Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Play it fuckin' loud!
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
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.
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.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
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 with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.