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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

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

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.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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?

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

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

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

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.

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

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?