The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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

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.

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

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

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

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

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.