Quotes About Creativity

I think the music of the Fifties is really good. I suspect it's much better musically than much of what's available now. Not in terms of production, but in terms of content.

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can't.

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

The piece of music is nothing without the act of interpretation. That is the only way it can live, and it's a totally abstract thing.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.

It's important to keep indie record stores alive because their unique environments introduce music lovers to things in a very personal way.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

Bad music can make you weak.

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.

For the past couple of years I've been pretty bored with music in general... just bored with it.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

Music is a language, a universal language.