We're not trying to change the world; just music.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time