Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
Let silence be the art you practice.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Play it fuckin' loud!
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.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.