Quotes About Creativity

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Music's always going to evolve, and we can't really stop that, so we have to figure out what's the next thing and how we move towards that as opposed to just being like, 'Oh, cool: let's just continue making tear-out EDM hits that are gonna last 2 months, and then somebody else is making the exact same thing under a different name.'

I think, generally, the creative process is hurt if you're thinking about the end as opposed to focusing on day-to-day decisions.

We love great melodies and great songs that have great hooks and melodies, so we start a little bit more on that side as opposed to other people that start more lyric-based. Sometimes we'll do it the other way.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.

The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.

I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

I was thinking about how a playlist is really so inadequate as opposed to a mixtape because it takes seventeen days to really make a mixtape with a homemade cover that you like and that you'd give away.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

So the best way to understand poetry, which is made by men, is to imitate, and that goes back to making work as a kind of doorway into new work, as opposed to making work as a mirror of the old work.

After 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' the films that followed it, instead of having their own unique aesthetic, they all wanted to be 'Lord of the Rings' as opposed to learning from 'Lord of the Rings.'

I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.

Nirvana was a band that led you somewhere, as opposed to all the grunge bands that began and ended with themselves.

You just go straight for the reality of the situation. So when I sit down to write, I find myself judging it as I'm doing it, as opposed to letting it free flow.

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

I always wanted to make a show that had everything I wanted to watch, as opposed to just one or two things.