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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

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

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

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.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time

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

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

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

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The earth has music for those who listen.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

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