Quotes About Creativity

Play music that means something to you. Make it happen for yourself.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today's wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

Music in general is looking for something new overall.

Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

There is a lot of music out there that you can play side by side and you can't hear the personality - that has a timeline on it, for sure.

Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.

I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

Music has never been at a better time then it is right now, we're really lucky to be a part of this wonderful thing called music.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

Hip Hop was supposed to be this new thing that had no boundaries and was so different to everyday music. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live on.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.