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?

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

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

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

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

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

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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 temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.