When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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

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

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

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

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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

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.

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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

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

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

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 mediator between spiritual and sensual life.