The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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.
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.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.