Quotes About Creativity

I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music.

I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities.

When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

There are a lot of people in this world that listen to wide ranges of music and there should never be a CERTAIN type of music that any artist should be confined to, in my opinion.

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than lifes daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

The important thing is to feel your music, really feel it and believe it.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

Mozart is sweet sunshine.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.