Quotes About Creativity

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Knowing what you want to do and then what you have to do to make it happen is one big difference between adult creativity and child's play.

I just want to do cool stuff.

Truants like you should understand art. The way to free y'rself from any system of control is to do something useless.

The way to free yourself from any system of control is to do something useless. But do it as well as you can!

It boils down to this: you aren't allowed to tell them what their problem is, and in return, they aren't allowed to tell you what to build. They own the problem, you own the solution.

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

I have built my entire life around loving music, and I surround myself with it. I'm always racing to catch up on my next favorite song. But I never stop playing my mixes. Every fan makes them. The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of a life.

They're never technically tapes, but they're always called mix tapes anyway, just because tapes are always cool.

Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of a life.

Dave Matthews is mixing violin solos with saxophone solos and it's bad for the baby

My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to start something.

Some records turned out better than others: Off the Ground quite rotten, Flaming Pie and New and Chaos and Creation in the Backyard quite excellent. One of my favorites is Run Devil Run, from 1999, the year after Linda died

Silly Love Songs" wanders on for a bizarre and very unpop six minutes. Paul was passionate about music-making, which is different from being passionate about music.

Bowie's five best albums came all in a five-year rush: Station to Station (1976), Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Lodger (1979), Scary Monsters (1980). What do these albums have in common? The rhythm section: Dennis Davis on drums, George Murray on bass, and Carlos Alomar on guitar.

five). The Esher demos are a real treasure trove; they mined it for years. Songs that got worried to death on the album are played with a fresh one-take campfire feel, just acoustic guitars and handclaps

They asked me what sonically I could bring to the table, and I told them about this new gadget I had just bought, the Eventide Harmonizer. They asked what it did, and I said, it fucks with the fabric of time.

I'd have too much John ("Oh Yoko!," "I'm Steppin' Out," "Oh My Love," "New York City," "Nobody Told Me") and too much Paul ("Jet," "Friends to Go," "Flaming Pie," "Too Many People," "We Got Married," "Simple as That," "Hi, Hi, Hi," "You Gave Me the Answer").