Quotes About Creativity Musicians

#1. I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

Yoko Ono

#2. In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.

Edith Wharton

#3. Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.

Harold B. Lee

#4. The video game story-development process is incredibly broken.

Austin Grossman

#5. Artistes breathe and dream creativity!

Avijeet Das

#6. I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

Duncan Sheik

#7. Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.

Maurice Saatchi

#8. Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

Jimmy Carl Black

#9. A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

Gerhard Schroder

#10. I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

Ian Thorpe

#11. The music industry over there seems to treat America like it's one territory even though they got offices in different parts of America - they're still quite sort of 'America is the territory.'

Sean Booth

#12. My friends will help me stay grounded, and so will my family.

Rowan Blanchard

#13. Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

Eyvind Kang

#14. I have no formal culinary training, right.

Thomas Keller

#15. I suddenly find out that I'm 60, and I get shocked by the number, because I feel like I'm 20.

Ursula Andress

#16. You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity.

Chick Corea

#17. Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists ... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.

Paul Laseau

#18. I am Graceful Gracious Grace
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Petra Hermans

#19. I'm nuts, I'm rich, and boy, do I love a fight!

Kenneth Langone

#20. Fear is the greatest incapacitator.

Jenny Holzer

#21. The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it.

Michael Gungor

#22. So many important New York musicians were gay, one wit dubbed the American Composers League the Homintern.

Charles Kaiser

#23. I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

Jamie Cullum

#24. I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#25. The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing ... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Bertrand Russell

#26. For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe