Quotes About Creativity

Sheila thought that passion was a story people dreamed up to save themselves from boredom

children could be taught to hear and feel music in their minds rather than just with their ears; how to make them feel music as a thing of movement rather than a dull, lifeless subject; how to awaken a child's sensitivity.

That's splendid. That will do. You got up this morning. You've made everyone understand that. You don't have to be amusing or make people laugh to be a good speaker. The important thing is that you said you hadn't anything to talk about & you did find something to say.

I was born to travel and write verse.

Demander à la poésie du sentimentalisme ... ce n'est pas ça. Des mots rayonnants, des mots de lumière ... avec un rythme et une musique, voilà ce que c'est, la poésie.

For Art alone is great: The bust survives the state, The crown the potentate.

I wanted to love this piano. I wanted to invite music back into my life.

The piano became a kind of flying carpet by which I could travel to an entirely different place, and I would leave the room with the half-dazed sensibility that children sometimes show when they have discovered a new and agreeable and utterly private world of their own.

Natural movement is riskier," he acknowledged, "but life is risky and music is an element of life, so it is risky, too!

What allowed a person sitting in front of this strange giant to call forth beautiful sounds just by moving his fingers up and down?

There is no such thing as music note by note just as there is no such thing as a book word by word. We have to accept that things are ambiguous," Sebök said to one of the students on the last day of the master class. Is there any more fundamental lesson that we must learn as we mature? As my friend had told me, he might have been talking about all of life, not just music.

Listen to the colour of your dreams.

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There is no law against composing music when one has no ideas whatsoever. The music of Wagner, therefore, is perfectly legal

But that's what being an artist is — feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.

Thy witty dexterousness espouses life's aesthetic aspect.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

A genius is the one most like himself.

Where's jazz going? I don't know. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

Monk's reasons for dancing during a performance: "I get tired sitting down at the piano! That way I can dig the rhythm better.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant,And kestrels dear to kestrels, but to me the Muse and song.

Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.