Quotes About Imagination

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

I am an improviser, ... I improvise music. Whatever you want to call it all, it is all improvised music. I may capture it and go back and write it down for others, but it was originally improvised.

Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Sing a song, read a poem, paint a picture, hear the music... Rise up and touch the stars

Music is interior decoration.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.