Quotes About Inspiration

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Music comes from the musician, not the instrument.

I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me; music is me. I feel what people get out of me is this outlook on life, which comes out in my music. My music is the last expression of all that.

If there's any such thing as a perfect man, I think John Coltrane was one. And I think that kind of perfection has to come from a greater force than there is here on earth.

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

I grew up with reggae music.

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

Music is the true breath of life. We eat so we won't starve to death. We sing so we can hear ourselves live.

Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.