Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you’re passionate about something, then you’re more willing to take risks.

Yo-Yo Ma

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

Ludwig van Beethoven

“You build on failure. Use it as a stepping stone and close the door on the past. Don’t try to forget the mistakes, but don’t dwell on it.”
—Johnny Cash

“There’s more stupidity in the universe than there are hydrogen atoms, and it has a longer shelf life”

― Frank Zappa

“I think that the great part of creativity is overcoming fear. Fear is a given. When you sit down and have to begin something, don’t be afraid to be filled with fear, because it goes with the turf.” ~ Jerry Goldsmith

https://www.azquotes.com/author/49256-Jerry_Goldsmith

“If the question [about if there were only one composer in the world I could play] is purely ‘original’ works, no transcriptions, then Beethoven.”

https://www.pianistmagazine.com/News-and-Features/161/Exclusive_interview_with_pianist_Valentina_Lisitsa/

You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

Quincy Jones

They missed the point. There’s no such thing as silence. What they thought was silence, because they didn’t know how to listen, was full of accidental sounds. You could hear the wind stirring outside during the first movement. During the second, raindrops began pattering the roof, and during the third the people themselves made all kinds of interesting sounds as they talked or walked out.

— John Cage speaking about the premiere of 4′33″

Kostelanetz 2003, p. 70

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy: “Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.”

https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/inspiring-composer-quotes/