Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
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.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
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.
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.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
