Quotes About Creativity

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I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

I won't call it pressure but I want to come out with a better movie every time. That kind of enthusiasm is what makes an artiste aim for more.

Pressure' is the perfect first single, it just felt right. As an artist, you have to feel it out and let it happen naturally.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.

The pressure is always there to make good films, but that is more from your mindset, either you have it or you don't have it.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I just write songs and hope that they do well. I'm sure there is some pressure from someone at the label, but I'd rather keep away from it.

I feel like there's a lot of pressure on artists to be 100-percent organic all the time.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard.

We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.

I don't think you should feel too pressured about a mixtape. Just do what you want to do and show the music you want to show. You're not trying to win something big with it.

Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pressured, let alone make a movie.