Quotes About Inspiration

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'

You dream what you're supposed to do.

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

I came up with a 'forecasting cell,' which is basically a mixed intention cell or chord that is a complete hybrid of a consonance and a dissonance, and what that does when you are improvising is lead you to where you are supposed to go.

When you grow up looking at Superman, Batman, and all those superheroes, you take it for granted that is what superheroes are supposed to be. So then, when I see art books at the library, and I'm seeing Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo and Rembrandt, I think that's what artists look like.

I was born in North Carolina but moved to a suburb just outside of Philadelphia when I was 5, so mostly grew up there. I decided I wanted to become an actor when I was 8 years old. I literally heard a friend on the playground bragging about how he was taking acting classes and thought, 'Oh! That's what I'm supposed to be doing!'

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

When I made my Obey logo, it was 100 percent an homage to Barbara Kruger's work and 0 percent had anything to do with Supreme.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

If you don't have any Coltrane, 'A Love Supreme' will do it for you. It will explain everything. Even if you don't get it, it will still explain everything. That's how deep it is.

As long as we remain committed to holding high our individuals of supreme finish, others will be inspired to loose themselves of the gravity of the waywards and downtroddens.

Back in the 1980s, when I was a lowly editorial assistant by day and trying to be a novelist by night, no god reigned so supreme as the god of literary prose.

Judith Jamison is, like, supreme.

I made 'Supreme Clientele' what it is. Those are my stories, based around whatever they're based upon. It's me.