Quotes About Creativity

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

When there's nothing left, there's always music, that's all I've ever known.

Me and Kendrick [Lamar] have different types of music. He from a different coast; we ain't in the same lane.

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

My music is evidence of my souls will to live.

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.

I let my music do the talking. Ain't no TV show gonna help me. Ain't no hit single gon help me sell no records.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria.

I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view, and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Play and write music the way you want the world to be.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.