I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Let silence be the art you practice.
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.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
