Quotes About Creativity

I don't care what people say. My music's my music.

Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.

Because of the kind of music that I liked, and the different way that I dressed, it was kind of a perfect storm, creating a situation where I existed on my own throughout my schooling.

The power and magic of music lie in its intangibility and its limitlessness. It suggests images, but leaves us free to choose them and to accommodate them to our pleasure.

I'm one of those people who sort of feeds on music.

I can look at a fine art photograph and sometimes I can hear music.

I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

My message to anyone who's afraid that they can't write music when they're happy is 'Just trust the passion.' The passion can write a lot of things.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.