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

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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

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

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

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

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.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.