Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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.

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

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

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.