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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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

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.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.