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.

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

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

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

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

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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?

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.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

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