If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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

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

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

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.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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

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

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

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

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

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.

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

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