Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
Let silence be the art you practice.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
The earth has music for those who listen.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
