I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
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.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
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.
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.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
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
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
