Quotes About Creativity

Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

For me, if I don't know how to express it with words, I do it with music.

When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so I strongly believe that it can be more powerful at times.

In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

That's crudely put, but If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

I love to mix things up and create new dishes in the kitchen. I love cooking shrimp scampi and having a glass of Pinot Grigio while listening to music.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.

I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.

My music is very, very precise. It's very rigorous. The forms are much more intricate than you would imagine.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].