Quotes About Creativity

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly.

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

All of the technique doesn't matter... only if the feeling is right.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

Don't be a prisoner of your own style!

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. I much prefer to drink coffee, listen to music and to paint when I feel like it.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

This is Manchester, we do things differently here.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.