Quotes About Imagination

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

I can sing in my head and rearrange the tune of a song, note per note. I am a nerd.

Computers can be taught that certain tune or certain chords changes will sound pleasant together, but I don't think it's going to reach a point where a machine will generate ideas and styles.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can't. They don't hear that point where something else has to come.

I write stories that are already in the air, and I think it's important to have the correct listening device to tune in to that frequency.

If there is no music, I will perish. While I have not learnt music, I can play the tune that comes into my head on the keyboard.

A dream of mine is to write a 'Bond' theme tune.

I've been looking for a superhero I could tune into and relate to for years, and when nobody stepped in to take the place of 'Buffy' in my poor soul, I thought, 'Maybe I can create somebody!' That's how 'Headache' came to be.

That was the great, great thing about 'Star Trek,' that it was a show that people could tune into at all sorts of different levels.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

There are a million good tunes.

I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

My idea is to bring out the inner child that my generation has inside, which does not go to sleep because of so much angst over the day-to-day routine. With so much going on, you start tuning out emotions and surprises.

I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency - it's much harder to pick up if there's something else there.

There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved.

If I could bring 'The Tunnel' to life, I'd like to do it like that.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

I'm really small, so I think if I shrink, I'd turn into a puddle.