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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

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

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.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

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

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.