Quotes About Inspiration

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come on the synth. If I could somehow use them, I would.

I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate arrangements, I didn't have any songs.

The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.

The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

Mathematicians stand on each others' shoulders and computer scientists stand on each others' toes.

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.

You can create art and beauty with a computer.

In actuality it's drum samples in the computer. I don't know, I've just never really dug into that whole technology thing, I feel like it hurts me as a musician a little.

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

Entrepreneur, take a bite out of Apple's innovation so in turn you can bear fruits of creativity.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.