Quotes About Creativity

I'm fantastic at cooking up stories. In the kitchen, I can, at best, make tea and a badly shaped dosa.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

When we arrive at the studio, we put the kettle on, have a cup of tea, say, 'How's the family? You still got that old car? Is that dog still alive?' and then we start jamming. That's how the songs get written.

I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.

Every kid likes to be read to, or just even have an adult play with them, no matter if it's little girls with a tea party or boys playing in the dirt, it's all part of being a kid. It's something we all went through.

It's after dark that I feel most inspired, I'm a nocturnal creature. I'll write poetry or streams of consciousness, play instruments, or teach myself to DJ by doing a silent solo set.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

When I am not auditioning or meeting people, I teach myself dance.

Artists teach critics what to think. Critics repeat what the artists teach them.

I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

It's hard for me to teach and write my own work at the same time.

You cannot teach a person how to write songs. It's about being your own person and following your instincts.

Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if I could teach myself how to produce and get those melodies out of my head and into the computer, maybe I could make some cool music, too.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle.