Quotes About Creativity

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

The kids of today have taken over the music business - most of them very young. Simply because they write and jot down a few notes, they have the idea that they can write songs.

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.

I use my phone to record notes or hum melodies. That's how I remember them.

The most amazing thing about Karl Lagerfeld is that no matter what you ask him, you will always get an interesting answer. We even exchanged notes about ponytails.

When I was 5 years old, I saw people dancing in my head. In college, I would choreograph for the cultural shows, and in my notes, I would actually create formations of people. It was how my whole brain worked.

In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.

There are only so many chords and notes in the world.

I used to come home and play piano all day by ear and make songs up or figure out my favourite Elvis songs. I'd make up games by blindfolding myself and singing the harmony to whatever notes I'd play.

It's important to me to be able to hit the notes and just be able to fly when I sing.

There's always more than one way to play the same notes because of the nature of guitar.

Albums like 'Major Moves' or 'High Notes' - those still sound good to me.

My movies are personal notes of my whole life.

I'm usually up until around 1 A.M. or 2 A.M. I don't get much sleep - and I prefer it that way, writing notes and coming up with different ideas for two to three hours between 11 P.M. and 1 A.M. or 2 A.M.

Sometimes you can just record anything and slow it down hugely and you'll find all these hidden notes and frequencies that match up really nicely.

I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind the beat, playing with notes and harmonies.

I always take notes on my phone of lyric ideas.

Nobody has done Mariah Carey whistle-tone notes in country music that I've heard of, and if you're capable of doing it, you might as well add it in.

The key to performing a song isn't always about hitting the right notes, but about telling a story.

I love to write. I love it. I mean there's nothin in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it.