We're not trying to change the world; just music.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
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.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
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?
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.