Quotes About Creativity

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rhythmbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason --telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.

If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and our stories are all we got!

To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

Singles also have an endearing ability to get out of their own way: Imagine trying to extend "Pappa-Oom-Mow-Mow" for an entire album (and one thing you'll have imagined is a central dilemma of some of today's best recordmakers).

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

Why march to the beat of your own drummer when you can skip?

It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make...fish

Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.

I sogni sono collisioni di memorie, confondono il dispiacere di aver smarrito una penna con la rabbia di aver perso la propria amata. Creano ibridi, centauri.

One of the greatest faults in modern education is overstructuring, which does not allow for play at every point in the educational process. -Edward T. Hall

Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to "Y.M.C.A."?

That was when I knew him before, you understand, when he could just pull stuff like that out of his, uh, hat.

As a novel, of course, the whole thing blows dead rodents somewhat more so than a dead-rodent blowing thing. What the hell do I know about writing novels? I have enough trouble dealing with all the shit that happens in real life. I