Quotes About Creativity

In your emails, instead of just writing about your topics, tell a story that illustrates your points.

Jan Garbarek about Keith Jarrett: "What people don't consider is all his wonderful ways of accompanying his own melodies. That is only that version. But I've played with him so many nights and they were all different!... The way he voiced things and the inner lines he played behind the melody, and his own compositions were often radically different, but no less beautiful… It's hard to believe!

Talking of his relationship with Jarrett, DeJohnette says, "I love him because, as a pianist and drummer myself, I can identify with him … the concept of what to ignore, what to leave in, what to leave out… we intuitively understand that … that's why when we play together… we never know what's going to happen, but we always get something happening that turns us on.

The Rolling Stone magazine: " Jarrett… demonstrated his strengths – his sure times, his far-ranging imagination, his sharply-honed technique and his particular inner fire, which is at once steady and vulnerable. When he plays alone, Jarrett pushes his creativity to its limits. It's almost scary to hear someone who apparently relies so totally on the spirited, flowing, almost effusive directions of his muse, yet the muse seems to never let him down.

As it turned out, heavy metal would repeatedly prove to be best inspired from a distance—where strong impressions, memories, and images were encouraged to run amok in the imagination.

Poetry could be a brilliant antidote to some of our current cultural problems...our collective attention deficit.

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

we only read when you write

Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money.

I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

BeeJee &ersenn

Well?" "Well what?" "Did you tell them about me? Did you put my plans on the table, did you show the board my sketches, the new plotlines and characters, did you show them my storyboards, what did they think of my new idea?

If you want to write, you must write experience. What it is to be that thing. There is everything in a moment.

imagine the chimneys billowing smoke. Concentrate on those chimneys, can you see them? STUDENT: I can see them.

The dildo is long and elegant, a classic old school moon-rocket, complete with four stabilising fins at the bottom. Each fin controls a different haptic field. A silver pussy-rocket printed to the dimensions of her vagina and vulva. Not a penis. Never a penis. Ariel Corta has never allowed a penis inside her.

All written art is an attempt to communicate what it is to feel.

There is a value in unprogrammed elements in a programmed world

And what was it pen and fingers had drawn? What else. Wee Wendy Waif. As she could be. As she should be. As she would be. Now. Courtney Hall's smile was as bitter as her chocolate.

Ian McDonald

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.