Quotes About Creativity

Radio 3 shows such as 'Between the Ears' also make the kind of podcasts that draw the most from your noise-cancelling headphones. The programme commissions ideas that make adventurous use of sound.

I will not programme generic orchestrations but try to find original ones - when I play Richard Rodgers songs, for example, I have Peggy Lee's original orchestrations that I got from her granddaughter for them.

Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk being misunderstood, so remember, I am a man who once programmed a baseball game with no baseball players. If anyone appreciates graphics, it's me!

Synthesizers can be programmed with more imagination than a real, 'human' performance. It's a joyful thing.

Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it's harder for anything different to get through.

I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it.

Everyone is born with it but, unfortunately, our society and culture are programmed to kill creativity.

I was a programmer.

We would write our songs, then we'd have a programmer come in and add, for lack of a better term, bloops and bleeps on top of everything. Of course, the funny thing is that a lot of the modern-day dance music people are super-influenced by the '70s and '80s stuff that we already love. So it was a natural fit for No Doubt.

Programmers can be lazy.

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

I try to make the songs as good as I can - the way I like it, you know? And I guess my taste sometimes happens to be what other people, particularly radio programmers, like too.

Programmers are very creative people. And animators are problem solvers, just as programmers are.

Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living.

I love cookery programmes.

I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

I do think the BBC could do more, but I've always thought the BBC could do more - I think there should be more arts programmes full stop.

I've been making arts programmes for almost 50 years, and every day, I can't believe my luck.

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Computer programming has always been a self-taught, maverick occupation.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

I would passionately make the case that the harder the times, the more we need things that aren't just about keeping our job and making a buck - important though those things are. Arts programming isn't some sort of add-on or ornamental luxury.