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

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.

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

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

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 music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

The earth has music for those who listen.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.