Quotes About Inspiration

You see this dub thing, I was the one who invented it in 1965. People think it came later. But sometimes when I got a song to mix I used to just rub out the lyrics and remake it, and add in all kind of echoes and reverb and all that. Cause to tell you the truth, that is how I was seeing myself–like somebody whose voice got rubbed out.

There was a Lao proverb that called teachers the engineers of the soul

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

Jam nie z soli wyrósÅ' ani z roli, jeno z tego, co mnie boli

Gdybym istotnie przy tej jaÅ'owi?nie, przy tej niemocy czynu, posiadaÅ' nawet genialne zdolnoÅ›ci, to byÅ'bym jakimÅ› szczególnym rodzajem geniusza bez teki.

And so, although I have no lyre, I sing: For there is a desire, within me - a self-taught hymn

What allows us to be human is something daemonic.

The prophet's voice possessed of god requires no ornament, no sweetening of tone, but carries over a thousand years.

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.

How does one instill curiosity? Without it this 'educational' process is a continual struggle between a student who is trying to get by and a teacher who is trying to catch him at it, neither profiting.

The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

The creative talent belongs to the outsider, and to be an outsider is the artist's fate.

There are rich counsels in the trees.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.