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.

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

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.

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.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

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.

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

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

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

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

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?

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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Let silence be the art you practice.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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