Quotes About Creativity

I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.

without music he felt aimless and adrift.

I love the music business very much.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

I stayed involved with music my whole life. I was always playing with other people.

Being a classical musician, you're doing many things anyway. One day you're doing Bach concerto and the next you're doing some avant-garde thing. It's just another hat that I'm allowed to wear.

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

I play my own music. Fans come out to hear the songs I've made.

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

I love working on new stuff. I love the feeling of a new idea and watching it evolve. That's one of my favorite parts of making music.

I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

Music is catharsis for me.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I think that's my gift in this world is to put experience into music.