Quotes About Inspiration

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

The true mark of greatness is not found in what a person does with their own life. It is found in helping others discover that, they too, can become great.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

The meaning of my life is to help others find meaning in theirs.

You can't allow someone's hate to dictate your life.

The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

There's only one thing in life, and that's the continual renewal of inspiration.

I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

Music is the soundtrack to my life.