Quotes About Ideas

Be open to other people's opinions, ideas, and try new things. One of the best ways to learn is to feed off other people's experiences.

Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

Music has fed me a lot of ideas... The film BLUE VELVET came out of Bobby Vinton's version of the song BLUE VELVET.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Sometimes I imagine colors as if they were living ideas, being of pure reason with which to communicate. Nature is not on the surface, it is deep down.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.

I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

Because I frequently encountered obstacles such as old, entrenched ideas, ongoing power struggles, or the lack of staff and money, I also learned to develop patience and detachment.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.