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

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.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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.

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

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?

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

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

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.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.