Play it fuckin' loud!
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
