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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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

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.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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

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

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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?