Quotes About Creativity

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

The piano ain't got no wrong notes.

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.

Music is to the mind as air is to the body.

They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.

Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better as an artist for them.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

That's the ultimate thing I want to do in making music - to be able to inspire somebody else.

Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.