Quotes About Creativity

Music is a way of life, it's everything. I play drums and that's what I believe I was born to do.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

The moment one brings competition into music, the soul is lost.

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.

And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient!

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

Don't be afraid, just play the music.

Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

Sometimes, music is like poop. It just has to come out.

We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.

Once I could play what I heard inside me, that's when I was born.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.