Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

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.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

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

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

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

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

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

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

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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

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

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.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

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.