Quotes About Creativity

Watcha gonna do when I'm gone, Maggie?... I'll do macrame, punk.

My dominant right hand wrote the Inner Parent voices. My Inner Child spoke through my left hand.

Anch'io, pertanto, mi impegnai, per civetteria, a lasciare qualcosa di mio ai posteri [...]; e visto che non avevo a disposizione fatti veri da raccontare —perché purtroppo non mi era mai successo niente di interessante— mi decisi a dire le bugie, ma bugie che si potessero riconoscere molto meglio di quelle che dicono gli altri: perché, infatti, almeno su un punto dirò la verità, se dichiaro che sto mentendo! (Storia vera, I, 4)

It was as though a choir had been told not to sing harmoniously, but to sing their own songs, and to ensure that they were heard above the rest. I'm sure you can imagine what a deafening cacophony it would be.

A composition can include an element of improvisation as one of its layers. But jazz improvisation is based on specific codes, which don't allow the possibility to construct multiple layers, to put together different words, to have different rhetorical gestures intact.

Our relation to music must remain open, in a way. This is the privilege of music, not to let itself be formalized, to be locked in a certain procedure, in a certain way.

Some composers are just interested in music as form. I am much more interested in the formational aspect, in music as a process.

Perhaps that's just what music is: the search for a boundary that is continually being shifted.

come le figure dipinte non parlano quando le interroghi, così le parole scritte non sanno rispondere che sempre nello stesso modo, quello scelto dall'autore quando ha scritto il libro».

The design of good interfaces takes time and ingenuity.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

don't write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing. Lucille Clifton

when you lie awake in the evenings counting your birthdays turn the blood that clots on your tongue into poems. poems. from "The Message of Thelma Sayles

I don't write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions." #LucilleClifton

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle.

First thing, I throw on some jeans, a T-shirt and my Keds sneakers and make coffee. That is actually my favorite time of day. That is when I do my songwriting, when I am in writing mode.

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I figured. I didn't need to change anything.

Sometimes I might borrow something from a song I started a long time ago and see if I can grab something.