Quotes About Creativity

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

My mother always told me, even if a song has been done a thousand times, you can still bring something of your own to it. I'd like to think I did that.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

Music is life, and life is not a business.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.