Quotes About Creativity

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

Q: What's hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Math is hard. Reading a map. Following orders. Carpentry. Electronics. Plumbing. Remembering things correctly. Straight lines. Sheet rock. Finding a safety pin. Patience with others. Ordering in Chinese. Stereo instructions in German.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

Sing me a rainbow. Steal me a dream.

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don't care if they lose it; they'll just make another one.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

There's nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else's. That's a difficult statement to live up to, but then I've always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

using parking meters as walking sticks.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.

Everything you can think of is true.

Singing is just doing interesting things to the air. Elongating it and twisting it into shapes.

Songs are really just interesting things to be doing with the air

Song-forms are just like jello molds, ya know? I like goofing around. [ Pour some flavor in there? ] Yeah; and wait for it to sit.

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

Some kids wanted to be Firemen when they were growing up . . . I wanted to be a Fire Truck!

Thank God for white paint because many of my paintings have paintings underneath them because I'm a perfectionist and if I don't like my art I'm pretty sure no one else will.

Amy King is a true bard.

You leave more for your imagination if your eyes are out of focus