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Quotes About Creativity

I don't care if a dude is purple with green breath as long as he can swing.
~ Miles Davis
The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.
~ Squarepusher
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
~ Arturo Toscanini
Rock music is becoming stale. Let's put the fun back.
~ Ray Toro
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.
~ Pete Wentz
The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.
~ Luanne Rice, Summer of Roses
The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.
~ Pete Townshend
I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment.
~ Edgard Varese
Really good music isn't just to be heard, you know? It's almost like a hallucination
~ Iggy Pop
I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.
~ M.I.A.
I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.
~ Chris Cornell
I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
~ Serj Tankian
Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.
~ Ashanti
I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing.
~ Fetty Wap
It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics.
~ Johnny Mercer
I sat down with my long time business partner and Rap-A-Lot CEO James Prince to review the music that we had and quickly came up with an outstanding track list.
~ Bun B
Music doesn't argue, discuss, or quarrel. It just breathes the air of freedom.
~ Harold Arlen
Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me.
~ Grimes
David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow
~ Lorde
As a musician usually music is your way out.
~ Damon Albarn
If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.
~ Freddie Mercury
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?
~ Martin Gardner
You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!
~ Art Tatum