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.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

Play it fuckin' loud!

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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

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

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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.

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

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.