One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
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.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Music can change the world because it can change people.
Let silence be the art you practice.
