Quotes About Inspiration

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

Come dance with the west wind and touch on the mountain tops Sail o'er the canyons and up to the stars And reach for the heavens and hope for the future And all that we can be and not what we are.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

I love music more than I love people.

It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

If something happened where I couldnt write music anymore, it would kill me. Its not just a job. Its not just a hobby. Its why I get up in the morning.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.