Quotes About Creativity

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow – just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they right it down. It's simple.

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.

Me? I'm a mocker!

I sing both in my shower and in my car, mostly in my car, because I have this weird thing - whenever I'm singing to the radio - my friends kind of hate it - but I pick out the harmonies in my head, and I'm singing the harmonies to the tracks and I'm jamming it out.

When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.

The imagination was the only country where a man could truly breathe free.

Poetry served as a sort of intellectual wallpaper to brighten up the closet.

How do you think poetry helps people? he'd ask, wanting the whole thing quantified so he could compare it to digging wells in the Peace Corps.

When you are gay and alone and want to be a poet, suicide crosses your mind at twenty-two like an impresario's cape.

I could only dimly articulate it then, but I think I believed that Art would give me entry into a no-man's-land where the laws of straight no longer applied. And that once I touched the soul of another artist, a comrade in arms, the bodies would fall into place like folds of a garment, twining us in a passion of the flesh. Pretty high-falutin', and an awful lot of effort just to get a man to go to bed with you.

As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.

We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

The nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Art is a chimeric and permanent intervention in the mistery of permanent creation.