Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Play it fuckin' loud!

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.