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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

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

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

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

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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.

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

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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