Quotes About Creativity

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music.

Architecture is petrified music.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

I'm creating music - it doesn't matter if anyone else likes it.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.

Music is like my security blanket.

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

I feel like music is oceanic - there's no end to what you can discover.