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

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

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.

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

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

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

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

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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

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

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