Art & Creativity Sayings

Music is a spiritual thing, you know. You don’t play with music. If you play with music, you’re just going to get yourself all messed up.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

I'm a storyteller. I tell stories with my songs.

You can be the best musician in the world, but if you can't get along with people, you ain't going nowhere.

An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

I'm a very creative person. I like to express myself through my music.

The great artist of tomorrow will go underground.

I have been so much better at painting than I have been at living.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

I do not know what the meaning of my life is, if it is not to make music.

I hate the word 'artist.' I am a manufacturer of music.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

The artist must see the whole, not the parts.

The artist must look at all things as if he were seeing them for the first time.

I can paint and draw. I do not talk about it. It is my gift. I do not know how other people feel, but I know how I feel and what I do.

Pop Art was a way of making art for everyone.

It was a wonderful time. There were no problems then. We were making money, and we were playing music, and that was all we cared about.

I'm not a rock star. I'm a musician.

I'm not a man of many words, but I'm a man of many songs.