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.

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

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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

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?

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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