Quotes About Imagination

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

To me, that's what music is: creating a mood, and taking the listener to the place that you're going.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most effective.