And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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 is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

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.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

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?

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Play it fuckin' loud!