Quotes About Creativity

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

It was time for another album, and as so often happens, you'll set off in one direction, change horses in the middle of the stream, and the whole thing turns into something better than you had envisioned it.

We were a band without a radio format but not without a following. As always, our concerts were our bread and butter. We continued crisscrossing the country, playing our music and entertaining hundreds of thousands of concertgoers each year. I decided that as far as my recording career was concerned, from then on I would record whatever struck my fancy, without being concerned about it having to fit mainstream radio formats, whatever genre, whatever style.

I will never run out of new projects. I've got them backed up in my mind, and when I feel one is complete enough, we just get the band together, call our engineer, and proceed to make some new music. I did a duet album called Deuces with artists ranging from

As I approach my golden years, I find that the creative juices still flow bountifully. I've got enough album concepts and ideas to take me years down the road, and as long as God gives me the strength, I'll be writing and recording new music.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.

Writing is a bit like being a god

I was the hero, Roberto De Niro, William Shakespearo! Walking on the beaches, looking at the peaches.

Books were a gateway into an alternative universe. They were magic. A book could hold anything inside it.

If you write a book and nobody reads it, does the book exist? Stories in books, characters and things, you know, like places and monsters or whatever the writer has made up and written down, they only really come alive when we read them. Otherwise it's just a jumble of squiggles on bits of paper.

It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.

If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.

As a writer, or as a filmmaker, you have to present yourself, and part of what yourself is is what you're interested in, or what you think is funny, or what you think is sad, or what you think is horrible.

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

To begin... To begin... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. Okay, so I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana-nut. That's a good muffin.

If we were poets, we'd starve on words.

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you that music has boundaries. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.