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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

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

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

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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 in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.