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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time