Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Making music and writing kind of come from the same creative place.

I really admire songwriters or any kind of writer, painter or artist that says, "I'm going to get up at 8 o'clock in the morning and spend this time to this time creating." I do that sometimes, but the songs I like the best come as gifts from somewhere. It's almost like you didn't do anything, like you can't take credit for it because you sat down and the melody and words came out.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

I was just infused with ideas and I would dream about it and wake up and go, "Oh, I have another idea about Walter White." It was so well written. And it just got into my soul.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.

I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.

I've always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

A song is like a dream, and you try to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Nature engenders the science of painting.

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

I can clear my mind, and lyrics just come out; it's very easy for me.