Quotes About Inspiration

I don't organize myself sufficiently to get an album of material together, book the studio, and go. I need to be kicked; I need to be forced physically to go in. That's how it works for me. I'll get a great idea in the house, and it'll stay there unless somebody comes and drags it out of me!

Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it.

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

I learnt about being physically fit, captaincy, and the things that really matter when it comes to being a leader and a batsman.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.

You can convert the teachers, and you can convert the kids, but if they go home saying they want to be a physicist, and the parents question why they would want to do that, then it makes it very difficult.

When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist.

The album 'Physicist,' I erased all the work that I had done halfway through. I think that's probably why that contributed to that album being sort of sub-par for me, just because by the time I had to go back and do it, I was just over it.

Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

I was a physics topper in my school and used to encourage my juniors.

The goddess Physics was Stephen's idol. I was not jealous of her, but she did give me some cause for concern.

McMaster had an engineering physics program and... one of the parts of it was lasers and electro-optics and I just said, 'Now doesn't that sound cool. I just got to do that.'

I loved teaching. In addition to that, I love physics. And so what could be better than to talk physics to bright young students?

I was never exposed as a kid to any real science. I read the occasional popular science book, and I loved Mechanics Illustrated, which had a lot of pseudo-science in it: It wasn't until I got to college that I began to appreciate what physics is all about, and that was really an accident also.

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s!

I changed it to Leslie Hill, only that seemed more like a cocktail pianist. Eventually, being an admirer of Jack Benny, I took his name.

Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

I'm not really a pianist.

My dad was a fine pianist and he had a lot of great records and beautiful music.

The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born.