Michael Gambon Quotes

For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me.

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

It's a big plethora of music floating around in my head all the time, and I'll sit there and write a song.

Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument?

I've always said the bass just happens to be the crayon I picked out of the box. I'd still be drawing the same pictures... should I have picked trumpet or accordion or guitar, whatever it may be. The sounds in my head are still the same.

When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.

I can never turn my creativity off.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

I'm a relentless sketcher. It goes back to how you process the world around you - the whole left-brain, right-brain thing. Some people are data-driven. I've always been more visual.

Well, I have to have some type of visual in my head to finish a song. I can't finish a song if I can't see anything.

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.

I try to think of the songs as little movies. They're always pretty visual to me. I can always sort of see them. I don't always know what the end result is going to be, and I don't know exactly what it's going to sound like, but I can kinda see them.

PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.

Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator.

To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of man.

I believe that my creative mind is my greatest weapon.

...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.

It's important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

I can picture things, like a painter would, though Im not good at painting, either.