Quotes About Creativity

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.

I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

If you think you are a filmmaker... make a film, and then show it. You need to be able to finish what you started so it is presentable. When you screen it and see if your film has an effect on an audience, you will understand what it means to be a filmmaker.

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

I'm always thinking about future projects and at the same time trying to finish the project you're in the middle off.

When I finish a book, I always fear that I'll never write again. It takes a lot of time. You always think if you could just do something else - but nothing else makes me as happy.

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world to see.

It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's more about just getting enough songs that I really love.

You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.

You can sand something forever. You can keep working on it. All the arts are like that: there's no magical finish line. You get sick of working on it or you walk away.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.