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Quotes About Inspiration

Music to me is the air I breathe it's the blood that pumps through my veins that keeps me alive
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.
~ Vikram Sarabhai
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
I want to express the feelings that everyone has felt at least once in music so i think people will feel/understand my song.
~ G-Dragon
Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Creating music is a wonderful way to celebrate our devotion for Lord Shiva.
~ Amish Tripathi
Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.
~ John Coltrane
Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.
~ Ella Fitzgerald
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
~ Louis Armstrong
I compose music because I must give expression to my feelings, just as I talk because I must give utterance to my thoughts.
~ Sergei Rachmaninoff
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
~ Billie Holiday
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
~ Albert Einstein
Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.
~ Jimmy Page
Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it's not a cause. It is what it is-and that's a beautiful artform.
~ Synyster Gates
I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don't want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.
~ Hans Zimmer
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.
~ Duke Ellington
Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.
~ Mitch Lucker
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.
~ John Coltrane
Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.
~ Synyster Gates
But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.
~ Claude Debussy
I definitely have worked trying to create music that inspires girls to feel confident and strong, and feel like they can do anything.
~ Melanie Martinez
Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
~ A. R. Rahman
Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime
~ Zoltan Kodaly