Quotes About Creativity

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

I really try to wake up with my music the same as I do with my life, and that is with no expectations. I just feel what I feel that day and follow it.

I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends.

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

People are always defining and re-defining music. My style of playing has been characterized as smooth jazz and acid jazz. I listen as I play; I'm not caught up in defining the type of music I play.

I don't feel comfortable making empty music.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.