Quotes About Creativity

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they're going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It's just a given law.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

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.

We don't make music - it makes us.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

I found music to be the therapy of choice.

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better" now than it used to be, is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present. It is a myth. Creativity doesn't "improve.

Sometimes it seems as if writing a group of songs is like getting groceries, or doing the laundry—banal things I do more or less on a day-to-day basis. We deal with the issues involved in our mundane activities as they come up

music, I would argue, is a part of what makes us human.

Still, making music is its own reward.

I would hope very much that the converse of that myth isn't true - that one does not have to be nuts to be creative.

Walter Murch, the sound editor and film director, said, "Music was the main poetic metaphor for that which could not be preserved

the ancient Greeks or Romans could have invented such a device; the technology wasn't beyond them. For all we know, someone at that time actually may have invented something similar and then abandoned it.

Watch me work! Watch me work! Watch me work!

Yale, pointed out that once you let yourself see things this way, lots of things become "musical scores"—although they might never have been intended to be played.

The dead guys won't write more symphonies.

with jazz and folk musicians, everything was expected to be thrown into the crucible of a gig to see if it sank, floated, or maybe even flew.

where music is heard can determine the sort of music created by the artists who perform there.