Madi Diaz Quotes

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.

Nothing makes an actor feel freer and more inventive and more creative than being trusted.

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

I need someone who understands an artist's mentality. I couldn't be with someone who wouldn't let me have my freedom.

When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

It's an amazing feeling to go into a studio and really be alone.

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.

My favorite thing is being able to follow my inspiration, and the freedom of being a writer is hard to beat.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

Chaos can be incredibly creative.

There is spontaneity to my work.

The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.

Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to enjoy the propinquity of play. For it is the very freedom of the imagination. And what else were we born to do, but imagine freely?

For the creative players, sometimes it is better that they are not under pressure.

For me, working alone is being able to express, which is the artistic part.

I never do any song with any expectation.

I started filmmaking when I started surfing, so the two things have been with me since I was 12 years old, so it's sort of been in my bones to make surf movies. I guess every now and then I just crave to do it again.

'Meenaxi' was a lesson in liberation. It taught me to be a free spirit and understand the pleasure of my work by being different people, just like Meenaxi is.

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.