The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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