We're not trying to change the world; just music.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

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

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.