Tina Weymouth Quotes

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.

That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.

I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.

A lot of people probably get the idea that I'm this extremely calculated kind of guy, and in a lot of ways, I am. But when it comes to music or artistic expression, I'm very uncalculated and do things very spontaneous. If I didn't do that, I wouldn't want to do this anymore. I can't just play the same thing over and over; it would drive me crazy.

I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out there, I had no control. His whole thing was going off on those flights of fancy. Going, 'Let's see what we can possibly do that hasn't been done before up here.' And when it works, it's lovely; it's a great night.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

I don't study; I create.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

One should always be a little improbable.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Creativity is not and never has been sensible.

It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.