Quotes About Creativity

If there was just music without any genres, then people would look at a lot of things afresh, and approach a record without any preconceptions.

I don't really believe in genres. I don't want people to have any preconceptions about me. I want the first impression to be the music.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.

What's brilliant is having the opportunity to come to a piece of work with no preconceptions.

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.

You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

You can never predict what's going to be successful, so you have to do the one you really love, and I picked 'Mad Men.'

You can never predict a hit.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?

We're so bored of plastic, prime-time predictability.

Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.

If innovations were predictable, they wouldn't be discoveries.

There were certainly more conventional and predictable paths that I could have taken in life, but I believe in being true to oneself and following the thing that sets your soul on fire. For me, that is music.

A book's flaws make it less predictable.

I see myself more as an action director. All right, I do enjoy intense, bloodthirsty action but I like to blend and cross genres. I don't want to be too predictable.

There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.

The thing is with us is, we never want to be predictable. But at the same time we know what our fans love and we know what kind of sounds we want to get across to everyone.

When audience expect only humorous roles from me, my roles will become cliche and predictable.