Music can change the world because it can change people.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

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

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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

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

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

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.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

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

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.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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.

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

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