Quotes About Creativity

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

Man, there's no boundary line to art!

When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

Never play anything the same way twice.

It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

I can play all I know in eight bars.

When done right, music should breathe, be alive. It's not about getting it perfect, it's about capturing lightning in a bottle.