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

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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

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

Play it fuckin' loud!

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

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

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

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

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.