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Quotes About Creativity

I have to make music. If I don't do it, I go crazy.
~ Tom DeLonge
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.
~ Robert Fripp
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.
~ Pauline Oliveros
I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
~ Snoop Dogg
I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed.
~ Jason Newsted
I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.
~ Kenneth Noland
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
~ Joseph Joubert
People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
I think one of the most important things punk brought back was the whole concept of staying independent and doing things yourself. It made music a lot less boring in any category you can name.
~ Jello Biafra
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring
~ Nelly Furtado
If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.
~ Dexter Gordon
Music is a reservoir... of sounds.
~ Dexter Gordon
There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.
~ Ronnie Wood
There are only two types of music.good and bad.
~ Buddy Rich
My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me.
~ William Christopher Handy
I think it's important to do things that you're interested in. I think it's important to have other outlets away from the music industry.
~ Jason Aldean
The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.
~ PJ Harvey
I don't have music, Christ I wish I had music but all I have is words.
~ Sarah Kane
I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.
~ Annie Lennox
For Westlife, the music will never stop as long as our fans are around inspiring us to keep on making beautiful music together.
~ Shane Filan
That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.
~ Jerry Cantrell
Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music
~ Thom Yorke
Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.
~ Tom DeLonge
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
~ Roberta Flack