Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

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

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Music with dinner is an insult, both to the cook and the violinist.

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

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

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

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

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

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

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I`m on stage they`re not privileged to see me. It`s a privilege for me to see them.

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