The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

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

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

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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

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 earth has music for those who listen.