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.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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.

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.