Quotes About Inspiration

It's not love for music, it's a passion, and it goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it's about a way of living... Music is essential for my life.

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

I listen to gospel music.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

I usually have an idea that I want to build on and let the music take me where I wanna go.

I'm not trying to play the guitar. I'm trying to play music.

See the music, hear the dance.

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.