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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

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

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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.

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