Quotes About Creativity

Music is what I am, everything else is what I do.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

I feel like there's no real innovation in having some music. It's more just unique personalities and unique expressions, and you being able to tell your story.

Something new has been added, a new art of sound. Am I wrong in calling it music?

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

[on pop idol Donny Osmond] He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Music can describe emotions far more accurately than words ever can. As soon as I realised that, I knew music was where I wanted to be.

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

To me, Godard did to movies what Bob Dylan did to music: they both revolutionized their forms.

Music gave me something to do in my life.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

I love doing live action movies, but there's a great job in doing animation, especially one with music.

Trying to play the new concept with a outward bound feeling.

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

You have to be very focused about the music that you have inside.