Quotes About Inspiration

My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.

The new acts' major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their own voluptuousness.

Would you believe I devise my entire show based upon a single one of these jewels? It's true I choose a color from my collection (...) and with it I can imagine a whole world.

We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, and that those cracks could suck you up.

He said he was always looking for a new color. He used to call me the new color. He said he wouldn't wanna see a spaceship without me. He always talked in riddles, but I think I know what he meant, and I don't think anyone can ever say anything that will mean as much to me.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Art destroys silence.

Probably many people think that I came back to life after the Fifth Symphony. No. I came back to life after the Seventh.

I'll admit that writing doesn't always come, but I'm totally against walking around looking at the sky when you're experiencing a block, waiting for inspiration to strike you. Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov didn't like each other and agreed on very few things, but they were of one opinion on this: you had to write constantly. If you can't write a major work, write minor trifles. If you can't write at all, orchestrate something.

A fresh approach to a work of music (...) usually comes to those who have a fresh approach to aspects of life, to life in general.

The Seventh Symphony had been planned before the war and consequently, it simply cannot be seen as a reaction to Hitler's attack. The 'invasion theme' has nothing to do with the attack. I was thinking of other enemies of humanity when I composed the team.

Stravinsky is one of the greatest composers of our time and I truly love many of his works. (...) The marvellous composer has invariably been at the centre of my attention, and I not only studied and listened to his music, but I played it and made my own transcriptions as well.

I do write quickly, that's true, but I think about my music for a comparatively long time, and until it's complete in my head I don't begin setting it down.

Studying Mahler changed many things in my tastes as a composer. Mahler & Berg are my favourite composers even today, as opposed to Hindemith, say, a Krenek and Milhaud whom I liked when I was young but cooled towards rapidly.

A mi dobro pišemo samo ono što nismo mogli da ne napišemo.

A mi dobo pišemo samo ono što nismo mogli da ne napišemo.

Zaboravilo se: sve su velike misli ro?ene u tišini, najbolje su knjige napisane u ?utanju.

When you really want change, reinforcement will come from your heart.

I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.

It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.

I hope when you count the stars you begin with yourself, and may you embrace the moonlight with your dreams.

Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow.

Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts.