Bill Frisell Quotes

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

Just get a bag and drop a dream in it, and you'll be surprised what happens.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

I sing, but I also like to write. Creativity is the best part because you're then in your own zone and can talk about whatever you want to talk about - it lets you be free.

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.

Sometimes it works. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Hospital'. Sometimes I feel like playing 'Pablo Picasso'. I've been playing a lot lately. I do it as long as I feel like it.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Music is for dreamers, I think.

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

One of the great things about books is you can afford to do anything.

Hip hop is doing the new rock thing; there are no rules. They can do anything, really. And that's inspiring.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.