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

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

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

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

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

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

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.

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.