Music can change the world because it can change people.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

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.

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.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

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

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

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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?