Quotes About Imagination

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.

I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

All of a sudden it hit me - if there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can't there be figures of motion?

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

Music is another planet.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

Music is like creating an emotional painting. The sounds are the colors.

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.