Quotes About Creativity

Nobody considers a covers record an album.

Covers are always so fun to do, but there's nothing like telling your own story.

I always sang Leona Lewis covers, and if you know her songs, she's not just singing your average easy song; she's going off the majority of the time.

I love doing covers.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

Some bands don't do covers. I love music. I've done the '40s, the '50s, 'the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the '90s, the '00s, and I'm working on the '10s.

When I was in Baltimore, I played in several different bands, doing four sets a night, two sets of originals, two sets of covers, that kind of thing.

It's all about the balance. For musicians, me personally, you just can't keep doing covers or mash-ups. It would get old pretty fast.

The thing about doing mashups and covers is it's great, but a part of you never gets to really showcase what your original sound is like or what your writing voice is like.

We didn't understand why it should be obligatory to be on the covers of magazines as yourself when you are making music and are not a showman.

We make movies that crack us up and hope that they crack up other people, too.

I want to make movies and pieces of television and pieces of art that crack everyone's assumptions.

'Airlift' changed a lot of things for me. It is a difficult film to make hit songs. So when I was able to crack that, I felt nice.

Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it was - always cracked me up as kind of a funny style of music, you know? When I did it, it kind of cracked me up as a comedy kind of routine.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

I don't even listen to peoples' music... I'm really in-tune with my craft, I listen to me all day long.

Gay guys know how to craft, and they craft really well. Straight guys, forget it.

That's one of the reasons I got into country music: because of the craft of that lyric and how much you could put into three minutes.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting, 10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

When I set out to write 'Sanctus,' all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

I love my craft.

I have my little craft bag that I bring with me to set everywhere I go.