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

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

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.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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?

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

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