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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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