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.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

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

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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Let silence be the art you practice.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

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.