Terry Funk Quotes

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

That's the buzz for me, the creative process. An idea is never as good as when it's in your head. And then it's just how little you ruin it.

You're not gonna write a hundred songs and have a hundred entirely different ideas. It's a matter of finding the ones that are the freshest and most unique.

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.

Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

It's not enough to tell people to be creative; they need to know how, and what to create.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.