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

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

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

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

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

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

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

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

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

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

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

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.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

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

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

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

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