Quotes About Imagination

I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.

My fantasy had always been making a music video and performing with music that I had created.

Whenever I'm writing a song, if I have an idea for the music video, that's how I know it's a good song.

I've always dreamed of doing a music video.

I would do a movie musical.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

One of my really good friends in New York is a musician and looks just like Lindsay Buckingham. We always fancied ourselves the nice Fleetwood Mac.

Ornette Coleman is a real musician. He takes all of the things he's thinking about in the world - which is a whole universe upon universe - and translates this into music.

All of the musicians when I was young used to always say you had to tell a story when you're a musician.

I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

In my case you can pretty well figure that you can put a beret and a mustache on just about anything you want and it looks like me.

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

I always say that failure was my friend. I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

I remember the first time I ever wrote down a song was when I was 6. I was at my friend Emma's house, and we wrote a song called 'Girls' Rules.'

I have a daughter. I have my imagination. I have friends. I, in no way, am going to louse that up with some idiot man, frankly. They drag you down - I'm talking about my generation of men.