Quotes About Creativity

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

I think everyone's intentions are to become a performer at first. But by the time I was in high school and college, I discovered that I liked writing and that I was probably a little better at it.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly interacting with my own work. I always get to find these little secrets that I left for myself, little notes - I find them all over the scores.

If you go out and just play the old stuff and never write new stuff, you're not really a complete musician, you're a performer.

I always tell people, when they ask me what to do to be a writer or to be a performer, the key is to go to a place where there are a lot of other people who are trying to do the same thing as you and taking it very seriously.

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.

I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

I'm a jazz performer - I have to improvise with what I'm given.

I'm not running after glamorous roles, honestly. I'm a performer and want to perform instead of standing like a mannequin wearing a lot of makeup.

When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn't stop in the beginning.

Doing 'Comedy Bang! Bang!,' you have to play at the top of your abilities, so it is so fun to get that opportunity. I've grown a lot as a performer just working with those guys.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

I think that those moments before a performer plays are the moments when the potential for something to be created may - or may not - arrive.

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it's like to create yourself.

Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'

I look for stories that are different because that is how I will grow as a performer.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

I was a dancer and performer.

It's important to be out as a performer.