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

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

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

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

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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?

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

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.