Quotes About Inspiration

Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

When i want to hear new music, i make it

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.

Music is more than just listening to it. People use the music for them protection at times.

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.