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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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

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