A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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

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

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

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

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.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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