Quotes About Inspiration

The Rat Pack was the piece that really kicked me out of that little funk that I was in and then Ted called me up and asked me if I wanted to be the dad in Blow.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

Writing is art.... it reflects a creative process of experimentation and self-expression.

It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike.

Like the rest of us, nothing happened for Mother Angelica in a flash. Hers is a tale of mostly painful, confused, and, to the outsider, lunatic steps leading to a satisfying end. But the inspiration of her story resides in the struggle—a struggle that has for the most part been concealed or lost over time.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about artistic technique.

The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait for inspiration to fall out of the heavens like roasted ortolans. He knows how to hunt...He is never inspired because he is unceasingly inspired, because the powers of poetry are always at his disposition, subjected to his will, submissive to his own activity...

El verdadero poeta no se encuentra nunca "inspirado": está precisamente por encima de ese más y de ese menos, iguales a sus ojos, que son la técnica y la inspiración; iguales porque domina ambas a la perfección. El verdadero inspirado nunca está inspirado: lo está siempre; no busca la inspiración ni se irrita contra técnica alguna.»

Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery.

Be the light at the end of the tunnel. Be the reason for the end of someone else's struggle.

Life is too short to do mediocre work. Measure twice, cut once. Raise the bar. Exceed expectations. Create value. Leave your mark.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or it comes out flat. You cant fake your way through this.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

To thrive in life you need three bones. A wishbone. A backbone. And a funny bone.

Jimmy Bowen: You've got to find your own songs, because nobody but you knows what you want to sing.

I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments of ravishments under the lens of premises and conclusions, when you didn't impale them and label them, like so many splayed butterflies, bleeding the transcendental glow right out of them, then... what?

cuando te hagas valer a ti mismo y a tu pasado (por no mencionar el futuro), otras personas se sientan motivadas a hacer lo mismo. Así podrás marcar una diferencia duradera e importante en el mundo.

When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.