Creativity Quotes

"If Music is a Place – then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple."

- Vera Nazarian

"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."

- Thomas Fuller

"The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable."

- H. Auden

"Music is the only thing I’ve ever known that doesn’t have any rules at all."

- Josh Homme

"Music gives color to the air of the moment."

- Karl Lagerfeld

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

- Leopold Stokowski

"Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody."

- Joshua Logan

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."

- Aaron Copland

"Music is the tool to express life—and all that makes a difference."

- Herbie Hancock

"Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvelous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man."

- Frédéric Chopin

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."

- John Keats

"If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music."

- Gustav Mahler

"People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song."

- Michael Jackson

"Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it, secretly possess you."

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

"Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought."

- Yip Harburg

"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."

- John Milton

"We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."

- Arthur O’Shaughnessy

"Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words."

- Elie Wiesel

"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought."

- Albert Einstein

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul."

- George Bernard Shaw

"A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working."

- Henri Matisse

"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

- Sylvia Plath

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."

- Mary Lou Cook

"It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself."

- Donatella Versace

"There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns."

- Edward de Bono

"Deadlines and things make you creative."

- Jack White

"You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there's no such thing as a cautious creative."

- George Lois

"There is no innovation and creativity without failure."

- Brené Brown