Quotes About Creativity

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.

No matter how many books I write, I will eventually get to fiction. That is where I'm going.

when the album was done I loved it. It was a mixture of electric and acoustic solo performances with dubs. I called it Le Noise, after Dan. It was a French Canadian joke, a very English was of saying Lanois. I was doing a show that introduced a lot of the songs, and things were going great. I was very happy.

Having no knowledge is sometimes exactly what is needed to find a solution, so I qualified.

People lived their lives, carelessly dropping information as if it were trash. The writer moved behind them like a ragpicker. She cleaned and separated their garbage, culled and collected it.

I could not abandon the rest of me, even when the rest of me overwhelmed my art.

With a freedom unavailable to me as a historian, my imagination was feeding off history that I had written.

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

I don't make a film to make people like it. I make a film to make people think

Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.

There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.

You can't be a good writer in the States anymore... Because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standards secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today... (Sept. 1953 letter to Millen Brand)

The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Great thinking comes from a great mind

Sempre fui um autor correndo atrás da metáfora, das mais desvairadas metáforas. O adjetivo é minha tara estilística.

What an artist dies with me!