Creative Music Quotes

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

Laozi

Inspirational, Life, Music

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

Motivational, Music, Wisdom

Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

Steve Jobs

Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Rajneesh

Life, Dance, Mean

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Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

"Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Martin Freeman

Creativity, Clothes, People

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelou

Inspirational, Music, Lonely

Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who arent exposed to creative music.

Charlie Haden

Heart, Play, People

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If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Charlie Parker

Music, Art, Reality

Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

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And there are a lot of people interested in creative music, there are more and more and more.

Lester Bowie

People, Creative

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It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

Charlie Haden

Struggle, Creativity, Creative

"Charlie Haden Remembers Tomorrow". Interview With Mike Brannon, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 7, 2003.

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... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

Sam Palladio

Nashville, Cities, Creative

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For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

Anthony Braxton

Creativity, Errors, Creative

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If when you hear a song by OK Go you conjure up thoughts of a gigantic Rube Goldberg device or treadmills or drones or perfectly executed dance routines, then you know that this is a band that is masterful at coming up with amazingly creative music videos.

Rachel Martin

Song, Creative, Drones

"OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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