Quotes About Creativity

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

Learning from other people is what music is all about.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me.

I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

Thelonius Monk went over to Bird and Bud Powell and said, 'I told you guys to act crazy, but I didn't tell you to fall in love with the act. You're really crazy now.'

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!

I make music because of the love and joy of it and I try to make music to take you to a feel-good place and remind you that maybe there's a brighter day.

I don't have a hand in a lot of my own beats. I like all types of music and all types of beats though.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.