I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

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.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

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

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

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

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.