Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

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

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

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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

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.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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

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

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

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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