Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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

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

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

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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