Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
The earth has music for those who listen.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.
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.
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.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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.