Quotes About Inspiration

Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.

I put together amazing records, whether that's finding the beat or putting the right hook on there, and picking the right artists on the record. That's me being an A&R. And I'm making sure that they give me their best.

Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

Every song that we wrote for the first album made it. We didn't think about writing a bunch of songs and picking the best ones. We had to just make the best songs we ever wrote.

I'm a big believer in picking your boss, not the job. Great people create great jobs.

I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

So, my records really didn't sell, but musicians started picking up on my sound and my songs and cutting my songs and that turned into a gold mine.

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.

When I write, I try not to cast in my head, because then I'm writing to a major movie star, and it picks up those ticks, and that's not what I want to do.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

Sometimes on my show, I just play something out of the blue, and the band picks up on it.

I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.

I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup.

I've heard stories of pickup bands that can't follow, but here's the thing: If you want to play with Chuck Berry, you listen to his greatest hits and learn the format of the songs, but don't try to play it note-for-note.

When it comes to creation, I am open. However, I am extremely picky when it comes to who I create with.

It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.

We become like the five people we spend most of our time with; Oh, we've got to be picky, and you might have to fire a few people who don't belong in that inner circle because they can't help you be your best and further your purpose.

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

It's amazing what the acoustic guitar can bring to the picture.