Quotes About Creativity

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

I'm not trying to play the guitar. I'm trying to play music.

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

To jazz, or not to jazz, there is no question!

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.