Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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.
Let silence be the art you practice.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.