Quotes About Creativity

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm.

I don't enjoy songwriting.

My music is rock. I listen to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I listen to one of my songs, and if I don't give you the same emotion, then I go back and re-spit.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

Flowers are my music.

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

I was horrified by modern 12-tone music. I said to myself, 'Maybe I can find something different... maybe salvation, liberation, is possible.

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of

I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.

When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.