Quotes About Creativity

I think Kanye West is - people don't give him the credit he deserves for what he has brought to our generation.

David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.

L.A. is a big city that has a lot of music in it but is not necessarily known for it. A lot of musicians got lost in that. You can make a living; you can gig a lot within the city and never get out of it. That was something that me and my friends, our generation, were afraid of happening to us.

The best part of our lives is just every day when we are writing.

I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

From our music in general, we've always fought the idea that we had to fit into a box or fit into a certain category.

Nobody does our music better than us.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.

Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

We do not let our music get used in commercials for commercial products.

We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

We've always believed in our music.

I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.

A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.

We come from a more alternative rock band background, and it's interesting to see the things that people think we should or shouldn't do since our music is a little bit poppier.

I think we were damned lucky that our music never went down the drain because we went down the drain, and I think, in truth, there are moments where you could have said we got pretty close, you know.