Quotes About Creativity

I'm always going to do that - record and make music.

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.

You give a poet a bucket of worms, he'll probably put the whole bucket on the end of the hook.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

When I was a child, my grandmother used to mix a paste for me of flour and water. Then I would go out into the yard and pick grass and make drawings out of pencil and grass pasted to the paper.

Kohei Goshi, the 81 year old founder of the Japan Productivity Center, our host in Japan, said, "Americans are very good at inventing, but we may be better at raising a baby.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can also invent peace with justice.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don't.

If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect

But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

Y}ou make do with what you're given, and I've spent a good many years learning to write fine-sounding sentences so that I can hide behind them. It's the way of the hermit crab, with nothing to recommend it but the pretty shell it annexes for its own.

While my father was out boozing, she'd read to me by the stub of a candle, a thread of soot twisting upwards from its pinched, meager flame. By her voice alone, she could raise up the old stories from the bones of their words and--lilting between shades of comedy and melodrama--turn the dreary space around me into a stage for my wildest imaginings.

I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry.