Jonathan Richman Quotes

I love to create and play, I can't stop, hahaha!

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

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.

I just write about what I feel I want to write about. I'm like a kid. I get an idea, and it's like a kid's toy that you push and tug around the room. It's fun, it's bright, it's pretty and maybe it'll go clack-clack or whiz-whiz, whatever it happens to do. I like to make believe.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.

Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!

True play is creativity.

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

It's nice just to be able to go out and, basically, be able to play other types of music and not have any pressure to almost explain it and justify why you did. I just do it because I like to have some fun.

I like to dance, I love music and sometimes in the changing room I am dancing.

The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

I literally view wrestling as the time when I was playing with action figures. You can make anything out of it. You can make it be fun.

I'm all about having fun and being creative.

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

Life is serious but art is fun!

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.

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.

Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.'

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

Art is not only about angst.