David Bryan Quotes

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.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.

In art, anything goes, and if it goes, it goes.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

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.

Definition is the death of discovery.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

There's no one way to be creative. Any old way will work.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

I'll do anything that sparks me. Sometimes I'll want to do something random with ballet, and then I'll want to be a hippie caterpillar in an animation film. Who knows what will come my way, but I'm going to try and put little hints into the universe, and hopefully they'll float on by.

I would never pigeon hole myself stylistically because I just don't know what I am going to want to do next.

Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.

I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

Really interesting things come because you don't know what the rules are, what you can and can't do.

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

Not to be boxed in, to be able to transcend boundaries: for an artist, it's essential.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

I think there are actors who are like, 'Okay, what am I doing, how am I doing it, what's the appeal? Tell me what to do, what are the exact lines from the script? Okay, I got it.' I am not that way. I would be a terrible bus driver. I'd want to be like, 'Oh, let's take this side road! Let's see what happens when we go down this back alley.'