The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

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

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.