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Quotes About Creation

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.
~ Donna Summer
To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
~ Nadia Boulanger
Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.
~ Isidore of Seville
Where human eyes have never seen, where human beings have never been, I build a world of abstract dreams, and I wait for you.
~ Sun Ra
The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
~ Chris Cornell
Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
~ Martin Luther
Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.
~ Jean Sibelius
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
~ Van Morrison
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
~ Edvard Munch
It was in love I was created, and in love is how I hope I die
~ Paolo Nutini
Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
~ Jonathan Cain
If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.
~ Brenda Peterson
My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.
~ James Brown
Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.
~ Robert Fripp
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
~ Gustav Hoist
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.
~ Johannes Brahms
Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.
~ Shakira
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.
~ Gustav Mahler
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
~ Plato
I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.
~ Franz Schubert
My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.
~ John Luther Adams
Music creates order out of chaos.
~ Yehudi Menuhin
Within the body there is played Music unending, though without stringed instruments That music of the Word pervades the entire creation Who listens to it is freed from all illusion
~ Kabir