David Byrne Quotes

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.

Telling people how to be creative is easy - being creative is difficult.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much.

If you're alive, you're a creative person.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.

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

My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.

It's inspiring just to work on something and just kind of keep the creative juices flowing.

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

When you start to engage with your creative processes, it shakes up all your impulses, and they all kind of inform one another.

No one has been able to define or synthesize that precarious, splendid, and perhaps untidy instant when the creative process begins. This is what the uniqueness of the artist is all about. The transcendent right of the artist is the right to create even though he may not always know what he is doing.

Without playing with fantasy, no creative work has yet come into being.

You can't really do anything creative without a source of inspiration.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.