Quotes About Creativity

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Creativity was born out of necessity because I didn't have many things to play with.

I want to play the football I feel.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

I can play the air guitar really, really well.

I love to play gigs.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.

I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.

I just like to write. You can't play basketball 16 hours a day, so it's just working out, working on your body, take a nap, watch some TV, watch some games, and write.

I like to mix it up, so I do Parkour, play football, dance... I am a dancer, essentially.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I play football like I dance.

I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at home and play the guitar.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.

You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!

I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

I just play music, you know what I mean? That's what I want to spend my time talking about.

I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.