Quotes About Creativity

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Life without music is unthinkable.

Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.