Peter Brook Quotes

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

I don't know what aids creativity. All I know is that it feels natural to hold a guitar in my hands and sing.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

The places I visit in any given week are my home, so when I'm somewhere that feels good to me, it's a real game changer. If a place causes me to have a strong reaction, be it positive or negative, it'll often find its way into my music.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

Music is all about creativity.

I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.

I'm kind of lucky in the fact that I can take something that's in my head and write it down, or I can listen to a piece of music that somebody else has written and try to tap into what the music's saying and just kind of follow that, you know. I mean, nine times out of 10, I'm just kind of following where the music takes me.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that.

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.

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically.

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.