* some views expressed in these quotations not neccesarily endorsed by the author of this file.
* for entertainment only - history is not an exact science - dates and quotes not guaranteed for accuracy.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes!
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.
We work in the dark, We do what we can, We give what we have, Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task, The rest is the madness of art.
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.
Music must serve a purpose; it must be a part of something larger than itself, a part of humanity...
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.