Quotes About Inspiration

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

If I had to pick a favorite band of all time, it would be Rush.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

Depending on how I'm feeling that day or the music I'm listening to, I will pick appropriate lighting to help create the atmosphere for me. I use a lot of blues and purples.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.

I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble', I would have never picked up a guitar.

When I picked up guitar, it wasn't like, 'OK, I'm going to be Kenny Chesney.' It was like, 'I want to play a chord,' and then it was like, 'I want to play another one, then play a song, then sing while playing the song.'

When I was in Buffalo, Fred Jackson was you know, I would say he was a big mentor of mine and when I was in Miami, I probably picked apart Brian Hartline, Davone Bess, those guys.

I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.

I've been picked on my whole entire life, and I feel like I started the IAmMoreThan campaign on Instagram to try to find other people who have been bullied and totally overcame it and did something amazing with it.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.