Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Play it fuckin' loud!
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.
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.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
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 purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
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.
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
And, in the end The love you take is equal to the love you make.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.