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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

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