Quotes About Creativity

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

Jazz is about being in the moment.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.

It was not really the external influences that made me a singer. Music was within me. I was full of it.

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

I write music with an exclamation point!

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

Write the music your inside-you needs your outside-you to hear.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Music is being treated as one big karaoke machine.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

My music is basically all about witty punchlines and lyric progression that is aimed to make you laugh or say "Woah."

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

The greatest moments of the human spirit may be deduced from the greatest moments in music.

I'm a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

I smash guitars because I like them.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Music creates order out of chaos.

Music that paints nothing is only noise.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.