Quotes About Creativity

I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.

Warby Parker designs experiences, not products.

I grew up listening to Ravel, Debussy, Bartok and jazz like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Charlie Christian and Django Reinhart. It was incredibly inspiring! And I was given a guitar and I said 'What the hell is this?!'

In another time, another world, each studio made 200 movies a year and had 20 executives. Today, a studio makes less than 20 movies a year and has 500 executives. They own too many parking decks and too many billboard companies. They're awash in overhead, and it's pinning them down, and they know it.

I used to put flyers on cars in parking lots, anything to get people to come to my shows. I was always having to think outside the box, and even to this day, I still try and come up with creative ways to market my shows.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

I'm a musician, and I'm not interested in being in the Houses of Parliament.

I can't tell you how many times I've turned to Parliament Funkadelic for inspiration and actually just outright and replayed or sampled a song.

I could see how artists like Parliament would revisit the same music and kinda change it a little bit, change the words and hook, and it'd still be that same flavor. A lot of groups back then would make another song that sounded very similar to a song they already had. Ohio Players used to do it.

Willy Wonka had his chocolate factory; I have my Fear & Fancy Parlor.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

I always considered song parody kind of cheap.

Either I'm in the studio creating something, or I'm on stage doing some stand-up somewhere... or I'm creating a parody video flexing my pecs.

I can only parody stuff I love.

There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.

Experimentation is a big part of how you find the best of the best.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.

The difference between being a part-time writer and a full-time writer is like the difference between dating someone and living with them. Some of the romance is gone, but you learn things you'd never know just by dating.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.