Quotes About Inspiration

'A Clockwork Orange' was filmed near where I grew up, and 'Children of Men.'

I know all about Orange County.

It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

We care about this not being a world where 600 people have gotten on orbit; we want it to be 600,000.

I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

There is no secret orchard where ideas grow. Oh my, do I wish there were.

While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.

'The Cherry Orchard' is a masterpiece, and there can never be too many adaptations.

To me, my guitar has always been my orchestra.

Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.

Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

With an orchestra you are building citizens, better citizens for the community.

With El Sistema, you can create orchestras everywhere; then they can decide whether they want to become professional musicians. The aim is not only to create musicians, but to create people.

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

I feel choir just has a great sense of power when used with an orchestra, or even by itself.

Since my father's death, a lot of people have made it clear that they're not ready to give up the music. For me, it's a big, fat gift. I get to sing with a big orchestra and get to sing orchestrations that will never be old.

I can almost see the music. It comes in the form of colors - colors jump out at me, and that translates into notes. They come fully formed: the orchestration parts, not just the melodies. Even though they're not always the right ones to use, the initial idea comes like that.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.