Quotes About Creativity

I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.

I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

I went to an art school, so I was a choir boy.

Like a lot of artists, I started out as a singer in my church choir when I was a child.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

When you have the kind of success 'Minecraft' has brought, you can just choose yourself the way you want to do things.

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Problems arise only when an artist chooses to be above the art. Not otherwise.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

Inspiration is key for me in choosing characters.

While choosing shows, I look at stories and the concept, and that has to be different.

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories - too many - so it's important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.

Yes, I am extremely choosy. You decide whether to do a film or not only after you meet and talk to the film-maker. Only someone who thinks out of the box excites me.

Of course, I am choosy because I want to do good cinema.

Bad Name' is just that head-nod, traditional loop over a breakbeat, chopped up, and it sounds like the way I do my thing.

I was never a wallflower - I put my head on the style chopping block.

I started out playing 'Chopsticks.'

I'm a guy who doesn't know the name of the chord, but I know that it sounds good.

I don't have musical theory or great chord knowledge, but what I have got me where I am.

Lately, I love creating ideas on my acoustic guitar. I sit in my living room for hours trying different chords.