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Quotes About Creativity

I'm glad that my music has helped other people as it's helped me. It makes me glad that I did what I did with my life.
~ Don McLean
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
~ Jerry Hall
When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.
~ Freddie Hubbard
After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
~ Martin Luther
You can never stop discovering music.
~ Rashida Jones
I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.
~ Nikki Reed
Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.
~ Leonard Bernstein
Music and dance are all you need.
~ Moliere
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
~ Grace Jones
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.
~ Anton Webern
I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
~ Brian Wilson
The music is everything to me.
~ Frankie Knuckles
I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
~ Clarence Clemons
The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.
~ Gustav Mahler
That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.
~ Paul Banks
Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.
~ Rihanna
I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
~ Gyorgy Ligeti
I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.
~ Bobby McFerrin
Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
~ John Philip Sousa
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
~ Alban Berg
Rock 'n' roll is about music. Music. Music. Music. It's not about you, it's not about me, it's not about Oasis. It's about the tunes.
~ Noel Gallagher
Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
~ Andrew Eldritch
There is a great correlation between music and images.
~ Graham Nash