Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
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.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
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.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Play it fuckin' loud!
The earth has music for those who listen.