Quotes About Creativity

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

Taeyang's [music] is like hamburgers. He'll produces various flavors while staying within the boundaries of them being hamburgers such as a chicken burger and shrimp burger.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

I'd like to become better at writing music by continuing to study it.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.