Quotes About Creativity

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

A chimpanzee could learn what I do physically, but it goes way beyond that. When you play, you play life.

When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.