Quotes About Inspiration

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.

It all started in another book…

I want Poetry and Power and the young men who create it.

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

As writer Jack London put it: "You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club!

Experimental ideas are very often born by chance as a result of fortuitous observations.

The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

miracle it is to find the right words, words that carry soul accurately

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

Writing it down is the way I make it real, the way I find my way into what it is I feel. The words on paper or computer screen tell me more than what I knew before I wrote them, help me remember what I'm afraid I'll forget, let me keep what I don't want to lose, say to me: You were here.

Sometimes dreaming is even better than making plans" -Houndsley

All men of action are dreamers.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. from "Araby

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

Why don't you steal the pattern out of Kenton's '23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West'?" the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton's big band, said.