Quotes About Creativity

It's not instant composing; it's not following any kind of a formula. All you do is hear music in your head and reproduce it.

You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.

You explore beautiful songs & create your own interpretation of them.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

One of the most beautiful things we can give our child is music education.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

When I first tried to get a record deal for my original music, labels didn't understand what these instruments were meant to be doing

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.

If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing.

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

But this isn't like anything I've ever seen, or imagined, or even dreamed: This is like music or dancing but better than both.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can