Quotes About Creativity

I was like, 'Okay, cool, I'ma learn how to produce my own beats,' and I stuck to it. Now, it's hard to even take a beat from anyone else.

A lot of people have been sending me beats, I've just been getting it in.

Not anyone can rap to my beats.

I pick simple beats because I need space for me to work.

I'll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I'm living through something or have a female in mind, or have a conversation in my phone I could scroll through, I'm not making music.

I'm always making beats, and when I can hear Ezra singing on one of them in my head, I send it to him. That's one of the ways that we've always worked together.

I used to re-create the beats that I heard.

With me and Timbaland, we would always be at the studio, but working separately. He would be doing his thing with the beats and I would be doing my thing writing and then we would both come together and say 'OK, you add this to it and I'll add that to it.'

I started making beats in high school.

I actually started making beats first and that was before 2010. I think I was like 14. They were really bad. I used to sample like Arabic music for some reason.

When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten.

Every year, I assign myself to make a beautiful art piece which is my musical project for the year.

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

I just love new, beautiful music.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week. So I really couldn't see myself being anything else.

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

All of my songs are so hyper-specific - that they can seem universal is a beautiful thing.

Beautiful things make people happy.

I want to show beautiful things and share them with everyone.

All beautiful things in this world are because of women.

I learned to laugh at myself a little more, and I realized that beautiful things can be made out of mistakes.

The writing for us is the hardest, but also the most important. You want to get to the next part of it, to production, but it doesn't matter how beautifully made it is if something's wrong with the story arc.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.