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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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.

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.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

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