Quotes About Creativity

But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

I am rich because I sell a lot of books, but it's not my drive.

I don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.

Our society and media have lost touch with the job of the artist. The job of the artist has been subordinated to the job of the record seller.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

Selling art is a lot different than making it.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

For many writers, selling a book is the ultimate dream.

If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.

The traditional model for selling an album isn't the only way of doing things.

All I can say, being young people being in a band, writing songs that we felt were great... we never felt that years later we'd be selling out shows.

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

My first album, I had to write everything. Nobody was going to send me stuff just because I had a little success.

Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.

I made a quote-unquote 'album' for my senior project of high school. As soon as I finished making it I realized it wasn't the kind of music I wanted to make.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

I read for the sensation of becoming another person; I write for the same sensation.