Quotes About Creativity

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.

I can show you in music better than I can tell you in words.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

I love clothes and fashion more than music

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.