I’d never just want to do what everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.
I’d never just want to do what everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Similar Captain Beefheart quotes:
Other Creativity :
- The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
- Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.
- Art begins with silliness that reflects a reason in the real world.
- If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
- Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.
- An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- People who create beauty with the pieces of their broken heart are indestructible.
- I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.
- Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.
- Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvellous.
- The great problem-solvers are the ones who possess the right mind with positivity, critical thinking, creative thinking, and systems thinking.
- Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.
- A busy mind is full of thoughts, a blissful mind is full of ideas.
- Marketing is the marriage of business and creativity. The relationship is enhanced by the occasional affair with science.
- Creativity is a talent we inherit from God.
- To ‘see both sides’ of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
- Solve the problem before the Problem dissolves you.
- You cannot write if you are not on fire.
- Think logically, and you have a chance to solve a problem. Reacting emotionally to it prolongs and worsens your dilemma.
- Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.