Quotes About Creativity

And I don't care what anybody says; I like doing it, and it's what I shall continue to do

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

I needed to sing because nobody else was singing my songs.

He Said. David, you must remember that in all the functions we have in life, art is the one place where we can crash our plane and walk away from it. And that's so right. Creating something is the one area where you mustn't have caution or inhibition. If you make a startling, disastrous mess, it's fine, because you can reach out and reevaluate and plunge off into another direction. Bowie on Eno and art Interview Magazine September 1995

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. If I hadn't learned how to be a musician and writer, it wouldn't have mattered what I did. I never knew too many rock people. I would get to a place, some nightclub or other, and see all these famous rockers bonding.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Even though it was enormously successful, there was no growth going on at all. They were very hard years to get through, to find any sense of purpose. I wasn't allowing myself the service of being who I really am as an artist. I'd given myself dreadful parameters in confining myself to merely what I presumed people wanted. I never wanted to do this. I never wanted to be out there pleasing people. I wanted to be really stubborn and have people like what I like, not give them what they like.

An dem Tag, an dem du denkst, du kannst nicht mehr besser werden, fängst du an, immer den gleichen Song zu spielen.

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Someone once said that one measure of sentience was how much energy a sophont spent on matters other than survival. Fiben

the towering standing wave that composes the symphony of thought.

Magic and art arise from an egomaniac's insistence that the artist is right, and the universe wrong.

In other words, bright people with too much time on their hands, overly influenced by notions they found in old Earth books.

Necessity is a mother.

It wasn't that I wanted to be a writer; I just didn't want to be stupid.

Forget it. Don't write for the 'mainstream'. Don't write for money. Don't write for prestige. Just 'follow your bliss' by writing what you absolutely love to write to inspire and enlighten other people. Write what seems interesting, important and true, and give it away for free.

Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there are a lot of those texts. We have King Arthur and his gang in English; we've got Siegfried and Brunhild in German; Charlemagne and Roland in French; El Cid in Spanish; Sigurd the Volsung in Icelandic; and assorted 'myghtiest Knights on lyfe' in a half-dozen other cultures. Without shame, we pillage medieval romance for all we're worth.

Don't throw good ideas away until you've considered all of your options.

If you don't have calluses on your soul, writing isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

He can come up with the most exotic things I've ever seen or heard of every time he blinks his eyes.