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

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Let silence be the art you practice.

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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

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?

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

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.

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

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

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

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

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

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

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.