Paul Gilbert Quotes

Give the composer time to experiment, time to try out ideas. Also, the time to fail. When the composer has very little time, the temptation is to reach for stock ideas - ideas they know will work and have worked in the past.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

I try to find more interesting material with each project I do.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

It's funny how a song can start in your mind, and then when it goes through all the filters, it ends up in a totally different spot.

I always treat each take as a rehearsal for the next take. That way you can find stuff and keep adding and playing until they tell me to stop.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I will play around with an idea for a very long time until it's found it's feet and it's good enough to become a song.

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting.

I used to throw a lot of stuff against the wall, just to see what ended up sticking; now I'm pretty much using everything that I create for a record.

'Dat $tick' was the first song I tried to be serious on. Then I thought, Wow, what if I really did this seriously? How dope would that be?'

I love playing our older songs along with newer ones but If all I have is my old stuff, I quit. Creating is more rewarding.

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited. That gives me energy to want to make new things, and it forces me to hear things in new ways, which then can only help to say things in a new way.

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I write a melody and then change it and change it until I get it the way I like it.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I've always been a great believer that you have to keep producing new things in order to keep life interesting - not only for ourselves, but for the audience as well. That's really always been our principle and way of working.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.