Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Play it fuckin' loud!

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.