The earth has music for those who listen.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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.

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

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.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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 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.

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.