To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

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

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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

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.

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.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.