Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
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.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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 aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
