One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
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 is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
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.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
