Quotes About Inspiration

Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

Pearl Jam's 'Alive' is the reason I started to play music.

I never really planned on any of this being a career; all I knew for sure was that I wanted to create, I wanted to play music, and I wanted to share music.

I started as a writer. I didn't play music until late in life.

This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.

Generally we just play music when we feel like it.

Literally everything I do is either write songs and play music, or I'm immersed in my domestic life.

I know how to read music, watching my mom and listening to Mom play music.

I started to play music again because of my dad and my mom. I grew up playing guitar with my dad, and he and my mom encouraged me to start again.

That's what I wanted to do was play music.

I always had my guitar; I worked at writing some songs. I always played music - in the house. I sang to my daughters, I scribbled down some ideas. Actually I didn't always play music. I did leave it alone for some time too.

I always play music at home, every day I grab a guitar and start riffing.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

I think I have done some nice movies. But, I dream of playing the character that Amitabh Bachchan had played in 'Deewaar.'

I just feel I got my inspiration, education and all from others that came before me. And I added my... I don't even know if I added anything. I played what they played, and it sounded different, I guess.

My dad played junior college basketball, and he always showed me clips of Michael Jordan.

Tendulkar has had the greatest cricket career of anyone who has ever played the game.

I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.

Nasser Hussain was skipper when I first played for England and a massive influence. He showed me a lot of faith.

My father was a steelworker who'd come over from Abruzzi, in Italy. He played in the band and he encouraged me to be a musician.

Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that, and those guys play really fast and are virtuosos. I wanted to learn more about it, and I discovered that a lot of jazz guys played really fast, too.

When I played Little League, I looked up to the big leaguers, too, and collected their baseball cards.