Kate Smith Quotes

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

Music is all about creativity.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

I usually think in terms of music.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

I never jump on to a song and say 'I will only sing it.' I am not too obsessed as a singer. I am happy being a composer.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I am an inventor of music.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

I'm having a blast being the music director at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. It certainly is challenging for me, but I love challenges.

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it.

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!