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.

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

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

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

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

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

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

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.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!