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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

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

Let silence be the art you practice.

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

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.

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

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

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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