Steve Prefontaine Quotes

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

Anytime I shoot a video, I just think of anything I can do to set myself apart from everybody in the music industry.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

Whenever I sing, I try to make it different, the sound that you've never heard before, and put something new, which people love.

Some people like to paint and sing. We like to create and build.

I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

Whether it be in acting, music, or even in dancing, I only want to do things that I truly connect to, and with my music, it's everything that I am.

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I do what I love, thank God. I get to make music and get inspiration through Judaism. I can see why people might be surprised, because it's not been done before. It's certainly not typical. People are always trying to wrap head their around it. But it's probably simpler than everyone thinks.

I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.

Actually, everything has been said in print... it's a battle of giants and it's something that Walt would say is none of your business - go right on and create the best you can.

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

I think people are 'just creative,' and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.