It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

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

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

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

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

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

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

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

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

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

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.

Let silence be the art you practice.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

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

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.