Creative Foundation Quotes

I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

All my work begins with drawings.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

99.99% of your creation is complete before you see ANY physical evidence of it.

I've always said that theater was where I began, so everything I do now has a bit of my theater background in it. It was my training.

I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.

When I don't have any story in my mind, I am busy doing foundation work.

My parents thought art was important and a lot of my childhood was spent doing some form of it or another.

For me, drawing is everything, because it informs everything. It even informs my poetry. It's the way I begin everything.

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, 'You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.'

They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledge; you can't be creative in a void, or you just get a mess.

If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.

Drawing is the root of everything.

All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.

Being classically trained gave me the real foundation for music. It's so important in my life. Why was I influenced by all these styles of music? Because it gave me a sense of freedom. It made me feel like I could put my hand in a colored bag and pull out a different colored candy and have fun with it.

If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.