Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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

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

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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