Quotes About Creativity

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business.

But good records seem to get to the people who need them the most. I guess I have to believe that the best marketing tool is still a good song. And that it's probably better that I put my time into writing one of those than learning how to do social media properly." Petty

The feeling that universities were supposed to give, that feeling of possibility and promise, these kids got from playing in bands. By

I guess I have to believe that the best marketing tool is still a good song. And that it's probably better that I put my time into writing one of those than learning how to do social media properly.

Songs were the place he took his loss and turned it into something else. Which may not have been the same as grieving, but it was something.

Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would have been no good reason to make or release a Nebraska. The album made it impossible to use the word "sellout.

Tap is a school for syncopation that's also a school of song. "There's a dynamic that's used in tap dancing," explains Steve Ferrone, "that's the same as what you use when you're playing the drums. You build into the chorus. You have the introduction, the verse, all of that. I tap danced to 'Georgia,' slow. And I won a car doing it.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

The love of gain never made a Painter; but it has marred many.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject.... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.

His [the author's] renown… has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind, in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt, where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. —Washington Irving, "The Mutability of Literature

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving