Quotes About Creativity

My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.

I want kids to understand that making pictures is similar to making music; there are so many instruments and so many tunes that the possibilities for how you play are truly limitless.

New music? Hell, there's been no new music since Stravinsky.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.

Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.

The music of Bach is without doubt the most sacred gift to the world of art.

When music appears which only King Crimson can play, then, sooner or later, King Crimson appears to play the music.

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people.

Music is what I breath, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

I have to give credit to Giorgio Moroder ; among the first to make us realize the importance of music in film.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same.

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.