Quotes About Creativity

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

The final, unfinished fugue from The Art of Fugue is the greatest piece of music ever composed.

A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

I believe that regardless of how many people you've listened to or emulated over the years, your sound is you and what you really feel inside.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

If it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

The music is in the air. Take as much as you want.

I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music.

The way you change and help music is by tryin' to invent new ways to play

Music is a defining element of character.

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

I lived for music since I could think.

Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music.

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.

Life is not always good, which is why music exists.