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.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

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

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

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.

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

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

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

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

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

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

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.