Quotes About Creativity

Usually I like to improvise. Sometimes, depending on the nature of the piece, I like to improvise because I think it brings certain freshness and a reality to it, as long as it doesn't go too far out of the box.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

It looks like you can write a minimalist piece without much bleeding. And you can. But not a good one.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

So writing a song is much harder than doing a classical piece for me, because in a classical piece, I can just let the mood dictate what's going to happen.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

A piece of fabric can get me going.

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.

I love to wear original pieces you can't find just anywhere.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing all of them.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, and I still wear it now! It's come full-circle. When I design the clothes, I have a very good team around me, showing me different pieces and cuts.

I have three pieces of advice I want you to remember: Don't ever grow up. Don't become a bore. Don't let The Man get to you.