Quotes About Creativity

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Only one music comes out of me.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

I think that music has an endless life.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

Music is what I love, take that away from me and I really got nothing.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

Obviously, the music and lyrics are in me, but if I let myself get in my own way, I do. I empty out and let it come, and then the music spirits take over.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.

I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.

I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.