Quotes About Inspiration

Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

I don't want to be one of these people who's like, "Man, I don't know where my ideas come from and I don't know why this works."

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Left Eye, man...who else has more personality than Left Eye?

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

I think when the United States of America put a man on the moon in 1969, that was one of the greatest accomplishments mankind has ever done.

I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

Children need adult men in their lives.

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

And Burns--though brief the race he ran, Though rough and dark the paths he trod, Lived--died--in form and soul a man, The image of his God.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.