Quotes About Creativity

We all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.

One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans.

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

My God! What has sound got to do with music?