Quotes About Creativity

My father was the one who used to stand up in the middle of a number to flutter his lips and make sputtering sounds into lyrics.

There's a big difference to when you stand up and sing someone else's song, but when you've actually written the song, you feel like you were a part of it, and you're a lot more proud of it.

When you are doing stand up, it is the most glorious hour, when you are an X-Men version of yourself, with lasers coming out of your eyes.

My son assisted a few directors and my daughter does stand up acts with me.

I'm an entertainer first. But I do as a stand up comedian, the way for me to evolve is to make a difference, to make people laugh and learn and do something different. Because there's too many comedians out there just making people laugh. And anybody can do that.

Finding your voice as a stand up comedian means deeply knowing who you are as an artist and a human being.

We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos are nothing to do with it.

I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.

You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it.

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy, I liked that you had no one else to blame and depend on.

I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.

At Evergreen you can create your own major and your own classes. So I actually studied stand-up comedy.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.

I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.

I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.