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

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.

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

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

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.

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

The earth has music for those who listen.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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