Quotes About Creativity

Big Pop songs are born of inspiration and spontaneity. The question becomes how do you create spontaneity when you're going into the studio five days a week?

Seeing a young band, seeing that hunger and the raw spontaneity, is good for me. It keeps me young, so to speak.

Making music with other people feeds spontaneity, and lends ideas to your solo work.

And I love non-actors. Just like I love working with children. They have spontaneity and a great energy. You're just not sure what you're going to get.

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

I'm a great believer in spontaneity because I think planning is the most destructive thing in the world.

A lot of my albums that I've done, a lot of the songs have been the first take. It's before you mess with it too much - you can take away all the spontaneity and the emotion of something by trying to make it sound perfect.

What basketball expresses is what jazz expresses. Certain cultural predispositions to make art. All African-American art has a substratum, or baseline, of improvisation and spontaneity. You find that in both basketball and jazz.

There's not a lot of creativity when you're dealing with a disability, there's not a lot of freedom and spontaneity.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.

To be a good improviser, you have to study composition as a parallel. Because what improvisation is, on a high level, is spontaneous composition.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

The way plays happen, at least with me, it's spontaneous combustion of things you've had in your head.

Being spontaneous is a blessing.

I'd like to be more spontaneous.

I'm very spontaneous.

Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

I can't do method acting. I feel there is a different energy that comes when an actor is spontaneous.

I have great difficulty sitting in the middle of the night and writing. Everything I do comes spontaneous. Sometimes it takes a long time; sometimes it comes just like that.

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.