Quotes About Creativity

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

My mother says I have boring percussion.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

I'm just proud that I created something that helped me pay my bills because I was so flat broke. I was borrowing money from my mother to stay afloat, and that was kind of uncomfortable.

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

Necessity is often the mother of balls

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

I think my mother, more than anyone, knew the importance of inspiration. If it was occurring, you had to use it.