“If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.”
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be”
“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”
“... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.”
“One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.”
“I enjoy hating musicians far more than I enjoy appreciating them. As far as I'm concerned, when someone becomes a rock star, he quits being a person.”