Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Play it fuckin' loud!
Music can change the world because it can change people.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
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.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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 paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
