The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.