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?

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

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

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

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