Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Imagination encircles the world.
The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising.
We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?
Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain.
I appreciate people who sway to the beat of their own tambourine, like Iris Apfel and Helena Bonham Carter.
I wrote a lot of 'Driving on the Rim' by giving myself the gift of being just as eccentric as I felt like.
I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.
I believe that if we get out of people's way, the sky's the limit. The sky is the limit.
I don't like to box myself in when I'm composing.
Creativity means believing you have greatness.
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the vegetative body.
Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.
Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
When we transcend we are diving into a field of unbounded creativity. This is real creativity and when we experience that and grow in that, we can more easily find solutions to problems. We can get ideas for whatever it is we're working on. And we will get happier by transcending every day and we will find that we're happier doing almost anything. We'll get more energy to do our work.
Even myself, I believe that as an artist I should pursue more independent activities. If more artists believe in this and are active about it, they will be able to accomplish more on their own, without the influence of entertainment labels.
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.
When I'm in the studio, there are no boundaries.
Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.
