Quotes About Imagination

A song can go a million different ways once you first get it down on tape.

As a 13, - 14-year-old kid, I'd sit on my bed with a tape recorder and a newspaper. I would do my own newscast. I would practice my diction.

I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

I never really composed guitar solos. Id usually ask to run the tapes and Id go off the top of my head to make something work.

I always just like to improvise, and that goes for my audition tapes as well.

But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded.

One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the 'Rambo III' score. I was not allowed to see 'Rambo,' but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie.

We've always been quite clear about how we want the songs to sound. If we can imagine the song being played at a party, and it gets people tapping their feet, then it's in.

When I was very young, I just loved the idea of tapping on stuff, so I was always making a lot of noise.

The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.

Basically, I'm always coming up with ideas for mixing the things I want to draw with things targeted at children.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?

There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'

I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.

When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images that I had were the images of Tarzan. That's what I thought Africa was. Of course, the first day I arrived there, I thought I would see a lot of savages dancing on the tarmac.

I go back to read 'Tarzan' books every now and again or 'John Carter,' and you realize Edgar Rice Burroughs is not a great writer by any means. But he was a great storyteller. You wanted to see what happened next.

I've been playing Tarzan and Jane since I was a kid.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.