Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Let silence be the art you practice.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
