The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Play it fuckin' loud!

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

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 can change the world because it can change people.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.