Quotes About Creativity

I just do what I do. I like to make music

Music has no limits of a life-span.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Deeply listening to music opens up new avenues of research I'd never even dreamed of. I feel from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.

Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.