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Quotes About Creativity

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained.
~ Tori Amos
If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.
~ Jello Biafra
It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
~ John Fuller
The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.
~ Jodie Foster
You never come home depressed from a cartoon job.
~ Michael Horse
If I don't have projects going on, I get depressed.
~ Hunx
I guess there are a lot of writers out there who get really inspired when they're depressed. I can't write about being depressed until I'm happy. That's all there is to it. I need space.
~ El-P
If I'm kind of sad or depressed, it doesn't necessarily help me to write a song about exactly what I'm depressed about.
~ Julia Holter
I've never really been afraid of how people were going to define me, as long as I didn't write some cheaper song because people like that I'm depressed.
~ Phoebe Bridgers
Stand-up wasn't a calling. It was more like, 'What can I do that isn't going to make me really depressed?'
~ Josh Widdicombe
I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them.
~ Theodore Melfi
I won't write every one of my personal experiences into songs as I think it could be a bit depressing - and its nice to not be too open.
~ Nina Nesbitt
I don't feel deprived in not completing my artistic endeavors.
~ Alice Coltrane
I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.
~ Nicholas Lea
Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick really changed the way one-hour television looked and the depth of how deep it could cut emotionally.
~ Melanie Mayron
I believe what Wondaland is doing is creating depth.
~ Jidenna
We've made a lot of party music; we're definitely not Thom Yorke. But there's also depth to our records; we get emotional.
~ Benji Madden
Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.
~ Jim Carroll
Young people like things that are fresh and new. If something does seem fatigued, or derivative, they're going to let you know.
~ Wyck Godfrey
I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
~ Bennett Miller
A lot of songs are derivative of each other.
~ Tori Amos
I am telling you, the world's first trillionaires are going to come from somebody who masters A.I. and all its derivatives and applies it in ways we never thought of.
~ Mark Cuban
When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.
~ Todd Rundgren
Saturday Night Takeaway' is the show we always wanted to make. It's a direct descendant of 'Game For A Laugh' and 'Noel's House Party' and 'Russ Abbot's Madhouse,' and they're all shows we grew up on as kids.
~ Declan Donnelly