Creative Core Quotes

It's all about the music. Everything else is just extra.

To me, the essence of the music is the most important thing.

You're best off when you're part of the centre of the creative universe.

There is absolutely no single aspect of one's personality that is more important to develop than empathy, which is not a skill at which men typically are asked to excel. I believe empathy is not only the core of art, literature and music, but should also be at the core of society, from ethics to economics.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Every song has a heart, and I just go for that.

Nashville is the business center. They forget that the bottom line of it all is still the song.

Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.

The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, "Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." That's what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.

Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

Without writers, none of the entertainment would exist. It starts with writers. Writers are the most important piece of the entire puzzle.

The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

Spiritual healing occurs as we begin to consciously reconnect with our essential being - the wise, loving, powerful, creative entity that we are at our core.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.