Quotes About Creativity

There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them.

There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.

When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day don't really know what chords I'm playing, I don't know the name of them.

Maybe that's what makes my stuff different, 'cause I write it all on the bass. I can't play but a few chords on the guitar, so the bass works just fine for me.

I was driving home and thinking about what rock and roll should be about. 'Adventure and Trouble!' I thought. I sang the song first and then added the chords later.

I wanted to have absolute control over my music - from the chords and the voicings of the songs to the arrangements and the production.

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

It's hard to shoot anything in L.A.; it's just a chore, but they're great here.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

Writing is a chore.

While I love dancing, and even acting in 'ABCD' - 'Anybody Can Dance' - was fun, I remain, at heart, a choreographer.

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

I'm a choreographer and a director, and I have no ambition beyond that.

I enjoy being a choreographer.

If I weren't an actor today, I would have been a choreographer for sure.

When I was building my career as a choreographer, acting just happened.

For me, the choreography always comes from the music.

I don't think there is anything new left for me in choreography.

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

I will never leave choreography and will keep doing songs, too.

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

I studied dance and choreography in New York and even taught people there.

A chorus is not easy.

I love a good chorus, you know? I consider a lot of what I love pop. I consider Mitski pop.