Quotes About Creativity

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

There is a pinciple in the heart of music which has yet to be discovered.

He stole my music but he gave me my name.

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

I don't think about music as being new or modern. I just play.

If you don't like music, there is something wrong with your face

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

If you're not inspired and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived and I don't like to write music that's contrived.

I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.