Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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.
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.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.