Love Quote by Michael Schenker

"I love to be creative" lands with the plainspoken certainty of someone who’s spent a lifetime being told what “creative” should look like. Coming from Michael Schenker - a guitarist whose career runs through UFO, MSG, and a long solo arc defined by virtuosity and volatility - the line reads less like a platitude and more like a quiet stake in the ground. Creativity here isn’t a hobby; it’s an alibi and a compass.

The intent is disarmingly simple: to frame his work as an appetite, not a duty. That matters in rock culture, where technical brilliance can get recast as cold proficiency, and where “genius” is often treated like a product you owe the audience on schedule. Schenker’s phrasing rejects that transactional vibe. “Love” makes it bodily, emotional. “To be” turns creativity into a state of identity rather than a series of deliverables. It subtly resists the industry’s preferred verbs: sell, tour, brand, comply.

The subtext is also defensive in a musician’s way: don’t reduce me to my most famous riffs, my personnel drama, or my era. Schenker has been mythologized as the mercurial guitar hero; this sentence reframes that mythology as something more humane - a person chasing the feeling of making, not just the status of having made it.

Contextually, it fits an artist who’s kept returning with new lineups and new recordings, even when nostalgia would pay better. Creativity becomes both justification and refusal: he’s not here to reenact; he’s here to invent.