Ming Li-kuo says that today, many peoples in the world lack the concept of a "creative work," even though "the lack of a concept of a specific creative work does not by any means imply an absence of acts of creativity."
音樂學者明立國指出，目前在世界各民族中，仍有許多文化是沒有所謂「創作」的概念的，但是，「沒有創作的概念並不意味就沒有創作的表現」，他說。