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" Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting. " - Kristin Armstrong

" A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. " - A. R. Ammons

" Most artists are going into the studio for a fixed period of time, and they say that’s their album. I can’t relate, because I’ve never made music in that way. I come from a culture of editing and remixing. " - Kelela

" If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor. " - Guillermo del Toro

" We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home. " - Cynthia Weil

" Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. " - Jean Cocteau

" I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes. " - Mose Allison

" Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence’s biography on him, ‘Hold on to Your Dreams,’ one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music. " - Arca

" I think remixes give songs more life. " - Big Boi

" You either have to find a way to be really creative materially, or you better have a trust fund. And, last I checked, I didn’t have a trust fund. " - Mark Bradford