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

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?

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

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

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.

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

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

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

The earth has music for those who listen.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Let silence be the art you practice.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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.

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

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