To play without passion is inexcusable!

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.

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.

Play it fuckin' loud!

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

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.

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 not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.