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

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

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

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

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

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

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

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

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.