Gavin Bryars Quotes

Craft is part of the creative process.

Gavin Bryars

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Process
  • Rise
  • Progressive

• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Work
  • Process
  • Old

• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Creative
  • More

• When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Pretty
  • Eyes
  • Creative

• If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Decision
  • Process
  • Will

• I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Doing
  • Process
  • Editing

• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Working
  • Process

• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • You
  • Years
  • Process

• A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Feel

• The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Process
  • United States
  • Oil

• I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Day
  • Fashion

• There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Work
  • Different
  • Creativity

• The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Process
  • Adventure
  • Miracle

• It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Family
  • Clean
  • Seen

• There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Live
  • Real
  • Mistake

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Job
  • You
  • Weird

• When Coach gets emotional, I get emotional, and I felt that with him. The emotion was all about Coach Douglas ... I know it's a heavy burden, but I'm more than happy to carry that.

  

  Cael Sanderson
  • Emotion
  • Felt
  • Coach

• Craft is part of the creative process.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Craft