Quotes About Creativity

To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very particular one, and somehow, I've always felt the need to be very protective of that.

We talk too much of black art when we should be talking about art, just art. Black composers must be free to write rondos and fugues, not only protest songs.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.

Back in high school, I had this folk protest band, and I used to write all the time. And then, when I got in The B-52s, we began to write collectively, collaboratively - most all of our songs are written by jamming together.

The protests may turn into something entirely new. Our people are very creative and well-organized. Some of them are singing in shopping malls. Students organize things here and there, without any coordination.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

The core of what we're doing is, we're playing with the world. And our curiosity in doing that is what we are most proud of and what we like to put out there.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'

This is one of my lesser moments, and one I'm not proud to admit to, but there's always a time I feel the need to have control over the process and try to defend the song from the person I'm writing with. It never, ever helps and always causes problems.

It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.

I have never done films to prove a point to anyone; I have done them for myself.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.