I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Play it fuckin' loud!
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
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.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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.
