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

Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

The earth has music for those who listen.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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

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.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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.

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.