"A quality; an unexplainable, spiritual quality that creative people have, that is just inspiring, and there's no way to really describe it, except that you feel invigorated, and you want to create yourself. The arts, I feel in general, are the last bastion of that on planet Earth anyway. It's like a pinhole left on planet Earth -- of the arts, which is the idea of creativity, which is the idea of the use of the imagination in order to make up things that you present to other people, for only the purpose of wanting them to experience it. And experience the pleasure of it." - Chick Corea
source: digitalinterviews.com
Showing posts with label Creativity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creativity. Show all posts
Artie Shaw Quotes
"That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything... " - Artie Shaw
source: Interview with NPR (March 8, 2002)
source: Interview with NPR (March 8, 2002)
Horace Silver Quotes
"We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different." - Horace Silver
Herbie Hancock Quotes
"Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around." - Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock Quotes
"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music." - Herbie Hancock
Miles Davis Quotes
"I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life." - Miles Davis
Dave Brubeck Quotes
"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before." - Dave Brubeck
Chick Corea Quotes
"It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes me feel like we're in a brotherhood of some kind... we're in it together." - Chick Corea
Charles Mingus Quotes
"Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." - Charles Mingus
Buddy Rich Quotes
"If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician." - Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich Quotes
"Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers." - Buddy Rich
