Quotes About Creativity

Alternative culture has always had a populace within the black and brown community.

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.

For years, when I was popular, I would face the blank page to write, and I couldn't think of anything that I thought was good enough.

Having a set, popular formula does inhibit you.

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.

When I grow older and less popular, there will come a time when I have to shoot films on low budgets.

In bohemian circles, we were very aware that poetry was missing from popular culture.

I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

I make popular music but I'm not necessarily a pop produce.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

I feel like more artists like me should be on the radio. Everything is, like, so controlled by, like, super popular music. You know what I'm saying? Like, c'mon.

I've only written 30 songs or something. Dylan's written over 500 songs. There's no comparison. He's the Shakespeare of rock 'n' roll and popular music.

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness.