People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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?
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
