Quotes About Imagination

Pardon me if this all sounds corny, but when you put on a record, I'd like it to be an escape from everything you do.

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

I wanted to make sounds that I'd never heard before.

Just like any songwriter, the songs come out of where I am in my life and what I'm doing and who I'm hanging out with and the kind of sounds I'm imagining. I always loved the idea of it evolving in the same way that life changes.

With 'Scratch,' our goal is to allow people to mix together all kinds of media, not just sounds, in creative ways. We want people to start from existing materials - grabbing an image, grabbing some sound, maybe even bits of someone else's program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.

An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

God would have to beam into me what I was doing and what the album actually sounded like because usually when I start a project like that, I already know what the album sounds like before I start it.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth as it goes along.

I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

When someone is on the phone telling me a story, I'm hearing the soundtrack that goes with it.

Nothing beats getting lost in the world of a good book with a fabulous soundtrack.

I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.

I was always a Pink Floyd fan, and I was always into movie soundtracks.

Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

I collect art like other people eat pizza. I can't get enough of it. I need a constant source of inspiration.

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

I can be working on a collection and a film at the same time. It can take a lot out of me, but the processes come from the same source. From a brief I set myself I can make a film, I can make a collection, I can make an installation.

Freedom is the source of human creativity and development.