Quotes About Creativity

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

With schools turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word "intellectual," of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

She thought in pictures and feelings, not words.

Our first invention was the story.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

This, then, was the religion that I was raised with: veneration for human creativity and the power of ideas.

A machine is as distinctively and brilliantly and expressively human as a violin sonata or a theorem in Euclid. —GREGORY VLASTOS

To this day, I remain convinced of this basic philosophy: no matter what quandaries we face—business problems, health issues, relationship difficulties, as well as the great scientific, social, and cultural challenges of our time—there is an idea that can enable us to prevail.

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This will be our ultimate act of creativity: to create the capability of being creative. A nonbiological neocortex will ultimately be faster and could rapidly search for the kinds of metaphors that inspired Darwin and Einstein.

But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it works but what it does when it's stuck. —MARVIN MINSKY

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

Ay la ficción que daño hace, y Sebastián debería haberlo sabido, viniendo de un país cuyo héroe más grande lleva un orinal en la cabeza. No leas tanto, le decían de niño, y no hizo caso, y así le ha ido. La ficción puede muy bien instalarse en el alma de un hombre hasta destruirla. Sebastián había visto y admirado a lo largo de su vida, hombres capaces de hacer cosas en el mundo real e incapacitados para la ficción.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Writing is art.... it reflects a creative process of experimentation and self-expression.

When I split an infinitive, god damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.