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Quotes About Creativity

Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn; it's a vehicle for it.
~ Steven Tyler
Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.
~ Marisa Tomei
When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries.
~ Norman Jewison
I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
~ Kate Voegele
Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
~ Zack Snyder
Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good.
~ Tommy Mottola
When I first started making music, it was learning other people's songs and putting them onto four-track. Like Beatles songs and stuff. When I started writing, I used the singing side of the production as a vehicle for melody and lyrical ideas.
~ M. Ward
I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
~ James Mercer
There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces.
~ Theaster Gates
We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.
~ Chris Squire
The main pillar of my activity is making clothes, but this can never be the perfect and only vehicle of expression.
~ Rei Kawakubo
I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Sonic Youth has always been the vehicle for my writing, you know, because it's a collective songwriting entity: we write our songs as a group.
~ Lee Ranaldo
I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.
~ RuPaul
From the beginning of my career, I've used makeup as a vehicle to express my vision, my obsessions, inspirations, and addictions. There's nothing more rewarding than seeing young people recreate some of my iconic looks.
~ Pat McGrath
Your voice is not your instrument. Your voice is the character that you build, your innermost feelings, the things that you want to say, and your instrument is the vehicle that you use to carry the message.
~ Dianne Reeves
I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I think I use writing as a catharsis. I feel sometimes that I'd like to share that with people, so Instagram becomes a vehicle.
~ Noah Centineo
Well, I think at first, songs were sort of the vehicle which allowed me to be on the stage and get to hold a guitar and get to sing.
~ Taylor Goldsmith
Cooking is just a vehicle to express yourself, like painting and acting... The reason why we're cooking is not because we want to put something on the plate. It's so much more complex than that.
~ Dominique Crenn
Back before I entered primary school, I liked to draw, even though I was a brat. I especially liked animals and vehicles, and I drew that sort of thing constantly.
~ Akira Toriyama
Our new programmes have always just been different vehicles for the same sort of comedy.
~ Bob Mortimer
We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way.
~ Freeman Thomas
I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.
~ Peter Zumthor