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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

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

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

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

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.

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

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

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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