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

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

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

Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.

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.

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time

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.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Comedy is the blues for people who can?t sing.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

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

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside

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.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

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

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

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.