Quotes About Creativity

Music commands how we feel, dictates what we experience in our feelings.

Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.

As an improvising musician, I am not in the music business, I am not in the creativity business; I am in the surrender business.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

Music is probably the only place I get energy from. Music and maybe watching a really tremendous performer, watching a terrific performer like Jagger or watching a great movie.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys.

Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.

The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

I just figured if I'm going to call myself a songwriter throughout my life, then writing for most genres of music is something I should at least attempt.

I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them.

I always have my own music on my iPod, especially songs that I am going to record. Besides that, I have lots of others ranging from Chris Brown to Beyonce', Michael Jackson, Rascal Flatts and Adele.

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe.

I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.

We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.