Quotes About Inspiration

My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her.

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer.

Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

My mother told me that when I was born a wave of feeling came over her. She just knew that I was destined to be an actress.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

My mother was the biggest influence on me, without question.

[Barack Obama] and Michelle, in my heart, this is my personal feeling, epitomize what my mother and my father were. They are community organizers on a global level.

I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.

My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.