Music/Art/Creativty Quotations

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
                              -- Scott Adams

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
                              -- Donatella Versace

"Every musical phrase has a purpose.  It's like talking.  If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful."
                              -- Itzhak Perlman

"Great music's as much about the space between the notes as it is about the notes themselves."
                              -- Sting

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'"
                              -- Aaron Copland

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
                              -- George Bernard Shaw

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
                              -- Amy Lowell

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."
                              -- George Jean Nathan

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
                              -- Thomas Merton

"Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn’t stop on the sixth day."
                              -- Joel Peter Witkin

"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they chose him and is usually too busy to wonder why."
                              -- William Faulkner

"Jazz is democracy in music."
                              -- Wynton Marsalis

"I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland."
                               -- Woody Allen

Rap is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art.

"The trouble with real life is that there's no danger music."
                              -- Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy

"I have nothing to say and I'm saying it."
                              -- John Cage

     

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