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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

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.

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.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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

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

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

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.