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.

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

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

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.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

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

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

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.

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.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.