Quotes About Creativity

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

Stay as connected as you can. Sometimes that means you're going to do a job that may not pay you much but may give you a great connection. If the work is not going the way you need it to go, create your own!

There's a secret sauce in California, and I hope people pay attention to it.

I don't want to have a song like 'My Humps' and it be sagging down, so I pay attention to that area. A lot.

I really pay attention to makeup artists and what they do with me.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing.

Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.

An enormous amount of ingenuity and creativity goes into commercials, and they can be fascinating if you pay attention.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

When you are 'world building,' people will oftentimes judge how well you built your world. They want to know: Is the culture believable? Does it feel like it has a history? I try very hard to pay attention to details.

Once I began to hear and pay attention to my fledgling ideas, the biggest hurdle was to learn how to respect them. That was hard, because the real way to respect an idea is to invest the attention and work needed to develop it.

When I approached my own movies, I went in it real innocent. I didn't pay attention to nobody else's score. I was just going to do it with how I feel it should sound. To me, that's how you create new things.

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

I don't know, I really try not to pay attention to comparisons, 'cause I'm my own artist. I try to build my own sound.

Brazil needs the individual creativity of Neymar, Philippe Coutinho, Douglas Costa. But it needs the collective creativity that sometimes people don't pay attention to.

The last thing I wanted was a big paycheck but no inspiration or support.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

When nobody is paying attention, anything is possible.

I never had a paying job that was not in theatre.

I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.