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Quotes About Creativity

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
~ Win Butler
The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
~ Washed Out
I want to do different roles and not get stuck in a rut and 'Shanghai' will be one film I'm absolutely looking forward to.
~ Abhay Deol
We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
~ Nick Park
Being stuck in a rut can kill your creativity, stress you out, and zap your productivity. Doing the same thing over and over again causes your days to blend together.
~ Amy Morin
The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
~ Madhuri Dixit
So many a time, I would find myself stuck in my studio while, in another country, my exhibitions were opening and I was being celebrated.
~ Wangechi Mutu
For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
~ Warren G
You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
~ Yelawolf
I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
~ Dan Chaon
Sometimes I don't even know what to name a song when I get done with it, and I'll let somebody else tell me what I should call it because it's whatever stuck in their head.
~ Justin Timberlake
Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.
~ Rivers Cuomo
I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.
~ Steve Vai
I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
~ Shirley Manson
When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge.
~ Damien Chazelle
I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day.
~ John Searles
When I was nine, I got my head stuck in a bucket trying to be Darth Vader.
~ Adam F. Goldberg
For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.
~ Martin Gore
I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.
~ Mark Ruffalo
If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.
~ Robert Fripp
I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts.
~ Jean Dujardin
If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
~ Michael Moriarty
This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.
~ Thom Yorke
I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.
~ James Brolin