Quotes About Creation

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

I listen to a piece of music and really get inside it and let it suggest a little universe to create.

I just do what I do. I like to make music

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

The Universe is making music all the time.

Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

Emotions are the fuel to really move you along, that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, like it's not going to happen.

For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.

My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?