A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.
Frank ZappaTowering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
Abraham LincolnAnd so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice WalkerAll men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David ThoreauI never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.
Frank OceanThe happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel JohnsonI’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.
Ariana GrandeI’ve tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I’ll try to tailor-make it.
Dolly PartonAround every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.
Dwayne JohnsonIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert EinsteinIf one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
Joel OsteenThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas CarlyleWhile working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
Alice MunroWhen you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Douglas AdamsAll our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt DisneyI could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.
Karl LagerfeldThe solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we’d have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.
Jeff BezosWhen nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James BaldwinWhen I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark TwainMy favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.
Taylor SwiftChinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
Jackie ChanThe soul never thinks without a picture.
AristotleIt would be great to be 105 and still making films.
Clint EastwoodSometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.
Stephen CurryI’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.
Billie EilishMy career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.
Nipsey HussleThe bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFor me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.
DJ KhaledBeauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon BonaparteIt’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles DickensThe job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis BaconGenres aren’t closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
Margaret AtwoodNo grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.
George BestI’m a writer first and a singer second.
Lana Del ReyTechnique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
Oscar WildeI first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter’s school fees.
Stephen HawkingDreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Marilyn MonroeI never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt DisneyI always had faith in my creative capacity.
Nipsey HussleSo that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWe become what we repeatedly do.
Stephen CoveyI’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
Lady GagaEven those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise PascalIf I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.
Margaret AtwoodBut innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.
Steve JobsYou know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author’s world.
Jeff BezosWhen you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.
The WeekndAll art is but imitation of nature.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaCreativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.
Marilyn MonroeLanguage ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
George OrwellEverybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
William JamesBut when I hear a great song, I can’t help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.
Taylor SwiftIn every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.
Narendra ModiI’ve been asking myself: ‚Why put together these things – CDs, albums?‘ The answer I came up with is, well, sometimes it’s artistically viable. It’s not just a random collection of songs. Sometimes the songs have a common thread, even if it’s not obvious or even conscious on the artists‘ part.
David ByrneEverybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.
John WayneI was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.
Haruki MurakamiEdison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill