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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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 don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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

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

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.