Quotes About Inspiration

Lo que yo puedo hacer no es sino insignificante. Si puedo hacerlo yo, cualquiera puede hacerlo.

This visit by these two men made my pen go limp.

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

If we listen, the air is heavy with poems, ripe for plucking.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

Sunset, springtime, the blue of the sea, the stars in the sky, all the things that entrance us exert their magic only in the orbit if woman.

the one, true unique beauty is woman. The rest, all the rest, exists simply to adorn her.

Celui qui te raconte qu'il existe symphonie plus grande que le soufle qui t'anime te ment.

fasciné par les mots... ces assemblages de caractères morts qui, pris entre une majuscule et un point, ressuscitaient d'un coup, devenaient phrases, devenaient foules, devenaient force et esprit. Tout

This room was our ivory tower, Sihem and mine. No one else was ever admitted here. Sometimes we'de come here to commune with our silence and reactivate our senses, dulled and blunted by the noises of every day. We'd bring a book or put on some music, and then we were off. We read Kafka as well as Khalil Gibran, and listened to Oum Kalthoum and Pavarotti with the same grattitude....

Bad weather doesn't give you ideas about going to visit a flower garden.

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

he and Smokey would exchange pickup lines and laments and rhymes until they had possible stanzas for a new song. One came up with "You got a smile so bright / you know you coulda been a candle." The other responded with "I'm holding you so tight / You know you coulda been a handle." And eventually they had composed "The Way You Do the Things You Do.

Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.

Have I ever said that Turner once actually had himself lashed to the mast of a ship, to be able to later do a painting of a storm? Which has never failed to remind me of the scene in which Odysseus does the identical thing, of course, so that he can listen to the Sirens singing but will stay put.

How can i hope to succeed when surrounded by flaccid imaginations and puny minds when my head.. My head is filled with NIETZCHE?

A life well-lived is directly related to a Bible well-read.

By and byGod caught his eye.