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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.