Ben Gibbard Quotes

I'm proud of all my films. I've enjoyed great success in many different genres. I have been very blessed to have so many ideas and to continuously produce successful films.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

Art is competitive.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.

I'm really happy when I'm actively creating things. When I'm frustrated and not excited, it's because I haven't written anything in a month or so.

If someone is trying to skip the struggle - which is the creative job - our machines today, the technology that we have, can help the person, but it is only momentary. On the other hand, if you are creative, you have the skill, and you are hardworking, technology can only make you superior.

Throughout my life, there's just periods when I write and periods when I don't. I don't feel like anything's really blocked. It's just not where things are at right now, and it's just a matter of time until there's something going on where I feel compelled to write.

I'm super inspired by Master P and early moguls. They were doing everything. I wanna do that, too. Twenty-six albums in one year. It's possible. Very possible.

You just gotta record stuff and move on and make new material. Painters don't wait until they're in some specific gallery before they move on to the next painting.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

To those people (who criticize me), get off your a** and make a record.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Never compete, create.

It all starts with a great idea and teamwork.

The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.

Execution is the chariot of genius.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

When you're making your 20th movie, it might be the 20th most incredible thing that's ever happened to you!

Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.