Quotes About Creativity

After a while, you find yourself waiting for that wrong note, you want to hear that wrong note, that subtle variance in pitch. People aren't machines. They make mistakes. They hit wrong notes.

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.

Accident is nature's way of starting a design; design is a man's way of looking at the accidents.

Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'

Marty This tasteless cover is a good indication of the lack of musical invention within. The musical growth of this band cannot even be charted. They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry.

Nigel You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of - Marty What do you call this Nigel Well, this piece is called Lick My Love Pump.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

Hans Hofmann, en Manhattan. Incluso instruy6 en el arte al padre de Robert Ike Niro. Cierta vez este hombre declar6 que si uno quiere que prevalezca lo necesario, debe deshacerse de lo innecesario.

Beginners cringe at the thought of perspective, but you have to admit it's very cool once you see that car sitting on your paper like it was a real three-dimensional object! You don't want to be drawing side views all your life,

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.

And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore...

If you cannot sing like the lark and the nightingale, sing like the raven and the frogs in the pond. They sing as God has given them to sing.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill