It takes a lifetime of music to get to the point where you’re like, “You know what, I really don’t care what people think. I want to do something that I find is interesting and hopefully that will resonate with other people.”
Creative - Creativity Quotes
Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.
After ‘Manic,’ I had a handful of radio hits and I think people probably would have expected me to – and I would have expected myself actually – to go in that direction and continue wanting to make music that is performing commercially in that same way. If I want to sustain myself and give […]
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else – these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
There are no maps to where no one has gone before.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
The overvaluation of intelligence among cultured people in our country has reached a frightening degree. Not only our public schools and our colleges and universities, but also our research institutions give the impression that the intelligence test is the only criterion of man’s mental endowment… It is as if imagination, moral courage, creative facilities were […]
For every person who thinks up a magnificent breakthrough idea, there are a hundred who are nothing more than mindless and unimportant implementers of the idea. The reason for the imbalance in numbers is that the implementers tend to kill the people with the great ideas in order to cut down on the workload. (“Dilbert”)
