Quotes About Inspiration

My father was a studio musician, played for a lot of people like Frank Zappa and a lot of R&B bands, and was always gone doing that. Then when he was home, he was practicing. And so I always saw it, and I always wanted to do what he did.

I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

Sometimes I like practicing, sometimes I don't. But I like the result... I hardly ever get discouraged. Maybe right when it's very hard to get something done correctly, but then the idea flashes through of how to fix it. And I get encouraged. And other ideas flow.

Personally, I think watching streamers play is the best way to get better, other than practicing yourself. So I watch Ninja, Tfue, Dr. Lupo. It's easy to watch what they do, and try to emulate it.

My teacher was still practicing Bach until his death at 89. I have no doubt that if I live that long, I'll be doing the same thing.

What I've been doing, since I am young, is leading by example, practicing hard and doing everything on the court.

My success has a lot to do with Mischa. He was the one who always used to practise with me when I was little, when I was a junior.

She was the one getting me to practise football. My father has helped in other ways but my mum was the one grabbing the ball and telling me: 'Come on! Let's practise now. Let's go. Right, right, left, left.'

Parents write to me, or come up to me after shows and ask me 'How can we get our children to be as excited as you obviously were as a child?' It's not necessarily what they want to hear when I say, 'Don't make them practise!'

Growing up, I remember watching 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'L.A. Law' and being so obsessed with it.

Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

If there was no Bill Bowerman, there would have been no me. He had about as much of an impact on my life as any one person could have. He taught me about competition and ingrained it in me. He taught me not to praise ordinary performances.

I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.

I love Jay-Z, I love Kanye, and I praise the way he's been able to bring more business out of the jungle.

The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.

I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.

Sometimes you have to praise players.

You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.

I just try to use my platform to praise God.

I would like to praise all of my coaches, from Pep to the first I had as a kid, because all of them have helped make me who I am.

Billie-Jean King used to take me out on court and say that she just wanted to watch my forehand. You can't get greater praise than that.

You can only be the great artist for so long - come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.