Quotes About Creativity

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive

I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.

A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.

Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

The whole point of music is being able to share your story.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it's not a cause. It is what it is-and that's a beautiful artform.

I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.