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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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?

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.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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