When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The earth has music for those who listen.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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.
The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
