Quotes About Creativity

Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies.

I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.

The idea of Israel as a start-up nation - everybody knows that. And Israel is also a creative nation.

We were always broke and always complaining about something and music came and gave us a reason. That's why we started Sepultura.

I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

I pretty much started the lyrics and I hit a roadblock and I think Kerry finished them up. Then I came back and did the ending part. The whole 'Raining Blood.' That part. But it pretty much came together easy. It's a short song.

I started out as a guitarist in the early '80s.

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

When I found Freestyle Fellowship, I started getting into the construction of rap. You get better at it the more you do it; you figure out the science and the math behind it.

I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

I just started singing 'cause I had dropped out of school.

Adam Yauch started the band. It's not like a thing where we could continue without him.

We do a lot of crafting at our house. I don't even know how it got started because if you ask me, 'Are you crafty?' I would say, 'No...' but it's something that we just do.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.

For me it all started with two turntables and a mixer.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin' it.

My formative years were in Houston. I was in middle school, and everyone was dropping the last half of their names and adding an 'o' to the end. My little crew that I had, we were an all-female rap group, and everyone had an 'o' at the end of their name. I was Lisso. Then this dude started getting lazy with it, saying Lizzo.

It was in Delhi when I started doing jingles and making money through music.

I started drag at 15 years old.