Quotes About Creativity

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.

A Jazz man should be saying what he feels: humor, sadness, joy... all the things that humans have.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you're worshipping.

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come.

All the music you've ever heard in your life is somewhere in your head. I don't reject that, I use it.

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.

.. you've got to be original, or there will be nothing distinctive or interesting about your playing

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions.

Sometimes there are no gigs, but the main thing is the music. You can't take that away. The only person who can take that away from you is you.

Put out great music, and that's that

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

Not to deny that it is a thinking people's music, but when I listen to music if I ever catch myself thinking, I'm in trouble--I know something is wrong.

There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile.

Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.