Quotes About Creativity

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

I would describe my music and my sound as… Avril Lavigne!

If you ever can bring about revolutionary changes, two things would be required: young people would have to be involved and you would need music.

The things I see every day inspire my sound and lyrics, like certain people and situations that stick out in my mind. There are also certain musicians I love whose music and styles inspire me.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.

Some of the ideas are kind of inspired by the songs, and I always want to use music to tell the story and give the movie a certain kind of mood. That's always essential to me.

Music is much more of a multimedia sort of thing than I expected.

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

I liked rock music, I kind of moved into that sphere, somehow thinking that somewhere along the line I'd be able to put the two together. And I suppose I very nearly did with the Ziggy character.

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

I want to write some books. Books that have nothing to do with music, just some fiction type of books for a whole different audience of people.

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.

Same thing with harmonies. If you hear something that harmonically is interesting, express it. So that's what I'm saying about talking the music rather than just playing through.

Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.