Creativity Quotes

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

When you're at odds with yourself, it's hard to create. Sometimes the writing process is as easy as opening up the window and letting in the breeze. And sometimes it's like chiseling away at a block of granite with a pencil.

I would rather be stricken blind than to live without expression of mind.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would-I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven.

It's not to anybody's best interest to think about how they will be perceived tomorrow. It hurts you in the long run

I was looking for a name like the Crickets that meant two things, and from crickets I got to beetles. And I changed [to] B E A because ... B E E T L E S didn't mean two things, so I changed ... the E to an A. And it meant two things then. ... When you said it, people thought of crawly things; and when you read it, it was beat music.

Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered.

Out of the bliss comes magic, wonderment and creativity.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live.

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.