Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

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

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

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

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.