Quotes About Inspiration

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent.

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Kids look up to me. I'm not saying I make my music for kids, I do what I feel, its just a self reflection of how I am as a person and it relates to a lot of people.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

Music is the tonal reflection of beauty.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

Life without music is unthinkable.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

Music fathoms the sky.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.