Quotes About Inspiration

Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)

Mientras la lámpara interna de las joyas siga encendida, apresúrate a despabilar su mecha y suministrarle aceite.

P: ¿Cómo puedo ayudarme a mí mismo? R: Recordando: "El Sendero no ha de ser encontrado en lugar alguno mas en el servicio humano", de Saadi

El mejor jugador de un juego es el espectador… pregúntale.

Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.

La enseñanza correcta saca a relucir la excelencia humana.

La imaginación te bloquea como un cerrojo a una puerta. Derrite ese hierro. (Rumi)

Continuamente, en conmemoración del Amigo, bebimos vino, incluso antes de la creación de la vid.

The imitator is like a canal. It does not itself drink, but may transit water to the thirsty.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Propio es del mal espíritu morder, tristar y poner impedimentos, inquietando con falsas razones para que no pase adelante; y propio del bueno dar ánimo y fuerzas, consolaciones, lágrimas, inspiraciones y quietud, facilitando y quitando todos impedimentos, para que en el bien obrar proceda adelante.

Oamenii lumii, care se las? condu?i de sentimentele pe care lumea le inspir?, iubesc ?i urm?resc cu mult? însufle?ire onoarea, faima, str?lucirea unui nume mare printre semeni.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

Georgian folk music has more new musical ideas than all the contemporary music. [Los Angeles Times. 26.02.1990]

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.