Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.