Quotes About Creativity

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Music is another planet.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.

I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.

Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

In improvisation, there are no mistakes.

I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.

I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.

I'm 100 percent original, and that's what got me here. My rap music is more understandable, slower. It tells a story. You can write a book on each of my thoughts.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don't need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.