Quotes About Imagination

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

Close your eyes and let music set you free.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

For me, music begins where words end.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Music has a lot in com­mon with math­e­mat­ics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to what­ever you wish.

I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.

Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.