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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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

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

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

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

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.

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

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

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