As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

There is no need to create. Genius comes only to those who know how to use their eyes and their intelligence.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

The five members with the same dream have fulfilled our dream together

There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.

No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.