Quotes About Inspiration

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

Frankly, I don't feel the fire anymore from the youth. I miss my era when motherfuckers were fighting for shit, spitting fire in their lyrics.

us legit options, encouraging us to make smarter choices with our lives, challenging us to make a positive change. The ball was in our court. It was up to us to decide whether we were ready to accept that challenge or not.

When I was in the game, I had this vision of myself

Long before we ever heard about hip-hop in L.A., I was writing rhymes. It

All through high school, I was reading Iceberg Slim. He was the first author I discovered who truly delved

into the life of crime and made it real to me. I went everywhere with his books, idolizing him. A lot of people don't know this, but in 1976 Iceberg recorded an album called Reflections, which had a lot of slick rhyming. I used to spit his words back verbatim. The gangbangers used to constantly say, "Yo, kick

got a full-time job in there paying me about thirty cents an hour. When I wasn't working in the laundry, I started writing and recording songs. This dude I met had a little cassette recorder, and over the years I recorded something like sixty songs. I studied all the rappers I loved and really

That's what we want to hear, Spike," Ice said. "Keep pushing, man. Keep doing what you're doing. Stay in touch with Al P., and we'll be there to help you when you come before the board.

player." I nodded, got up, took the mic, kicked some rhymes that were floating around in my head—real impromptu—and won first prize.

One of the deans of the Graduate School of Management at UCLA had a sign on his door that read something like: "Warning: I might incorporate you to implement your own ideas." The sign itself, I was told, made several creative faculty members turn away with their suggestions while still at the door.

One day at a time- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.

There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

The best player of a game is the watcher — ask him.

You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came before Did not forget you. Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara

Q: How can I help myself? A: By remembering the proverb: 'The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service', from Saadi.