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

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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

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.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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