Quotes About Inspiration

There are seven notes - Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni no one is original in the world. We have to play around the notes and make our own stuff.

If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

Kishore Kumar was multi-talented and original, so I really respect him.

There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

I've always been a good imitator. I love music. But I'm just not that original.

I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation.

I am the original... Those are my disciples.

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

The original idea for Justin.tv was a terrible idea. So if something like that can eventually become successful, then anyone can be successful.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Using the computer to record was a cool way to keep all the original ideas intact.

If someone wants to make very, very original music that no one has ever heard before, you shouldn't know anything about music. It just narrows you down, you know?

Original music is always appreciated.