Quotes About Creativity

If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.

I think the feeling of being kind of overwhelmed is almost part of the aesthetic of the work.

As a person I'm often overwhelmed by emotions, so I write them down.

The opposite approach would be to encourage people to make some errors. You do this by asking your folks on occasion what dead-end roads they've been down

There is probably no job on earth for which an ability to believe six impossible things before breakfast is more of a requirement than software project management.

When companies can't invent, it's usually because their people are too damn busy.

You may be able to kick people to make them active, but not to make them creative, inventive, and thoughtful.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

Making music is voluntary. Unlike bread, we don't require it for our sustenance. Accordingly, music shouldn't require its pound of flesh from the would-be listener. The price of art should be set by the market, by the listener, not by a machine with political interests.

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

the writing process behind The Tilted World.

This is clearly not the most expedient route—we learned that writing a collaborative novel doesn't amount to doing half the work, but rather, doing twice the work—but it was a wild new kind of work, a work that takes the other's half, and raises it by half. This felt intimate—showing

turn the story into a novel, and we agreed because the characters we'd created for that short story were still hanging around our brains. They had more to say.

When the Levee Breaks," by Memphis Minnie. Memphis Minnie wrote this with her husband, Kansas Joe McCoy; it was later covered by Led Zepplin.

he loved about people—trouble brought out their grit, their creativity.

if you can't find any grappa, half a cup of cough medicine should achieve similar results." [Audrey's advice]

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

A conclusion I've come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it's really about making work into something that isn't drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.