To play without passion is inexcusable!

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

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

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.

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

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

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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 music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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.

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

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